Re: [FreeDNS] Registration problem

[logrus <logrus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi

On Wednesday 07 February 2001 23:31, you wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> On 7 Feb 2001, at 19:10, Jaco Engelbrecht wrote:
> > 2) give me your two name servers that's authorative for you domain.
>
> Can anyone explain in simple language when a server is authorative
> for a certain domain or how you can make that server to become
> authoritave for that domain. Thanks!

hi
authorative servers are the servers,specified in the NS entries in the zone 
file...

ie. your zone file typically looks  like this:
---
@ IN  SOA localhost.localdomain. dnsadmin.foo.net. ( 
		2001010100 
		10800 
		3600 
		604800 
		86400 )
  IN  NS  localhost.localdomain.
  IN  NS  localhost2.localdomain.
  IN  MX 10 mail.foo.net
localhost            IN  A     127.0.0.1
mail                   IN  A     192.168.1.1
www                 IN  A     192.168.1.1
server               IN  A     192.168.1.1
server2             IN  A     192.168.1.1                                     
---
see the NS lines?
the 2 authorative servers are in this case localhost.localdomain and 
localhost2.localdomain...

now these machines have to exist and a copy of the zonefile should live on 
the one server mentioned as primary (and specified in /etc/named.conf)
and the secondary or slave will update from here...

once these are made public, (by parent registry), the world will start asking 
these servers for info when lookups are needed for yourdomain... (ie. when 
folks are looking for the ip of your www.xxx,ftp.xxx, or more 
importantly,mail.xxx hosts..)

simple, ain't it?
:)


>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Henk van Beelen
> henk@xxxxxxxx
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