Re: [FreeDNS] Help me while I'm still sort of sane.

[Johann Visagie <wjv@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 06:34:24PM +0000, Jan-Albert Venter wrote:
>
> Allright, I have spent all night fruitlessly trying to do this. 
> Between CNAME's and what have you's I've almost gone insane.

DNS can be entertaining, yes.

> Could someone please give me simple english instructions for the 
> following:
> (When a full time Linux programmer says that, something is really 
> difficult)

That does not necessarily follow, no.  :->

> I own datadictator.co.za (though I did not register it myself) and I 
> am willing
> to host a domain mapper on my own (hosted) servers.

"domain mapper"?  What's that, pray tell?  Am I missing something?

> I wish to register plug.org.za (checked it - available) through the 
> public nameservers mentioned on the website and make it map however I 
> need to, to use the
> domain mapping software.

Plain English:

1) Set up two (or more) independent nameservers to be authoritative for
   plug.org.za (a primary and one or more secondaries).  If you can't do this
   yourelf (surely a LUG has access to the resources?), get someone like
   GraniteCanyon to do this for you.  First prize would be doing it yourself,
   though.

2) Add an A record to the plug.org.za zone file to point to the IP of your
   web server - www.plug.org.za or whatever.

3) Make sure you know the IP numbers of your nameservers.  Make sure they're
   correctly configured [dig(1), nslookup(8), dnswalk(1), etc.]

4) Register your za.org domain via email or the web form.  Don't do this
   before you've completed (1) and (3), or it'll be rejected.
   Congratulations, you now have a domain.

5) Set up your web server.

Simple enough?  :-)

-- V


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