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Fizbin said:
Here are a couple of issues.
My server is not named after my internet domains. Does
this matter?
No, but you need to host one domain in DNS that you are going to put your
"alias" host name of your DNS server, this will provide the "glue" for your
name server. The alias I refered to is not actually an alias record (CNAME),
but is an "A" host record such as "NS1" this host will need to have a public
IP address that your name server can be reached from the internet. If using
a router or other NAT device, Incoming connections on port 53 UDP & TCP on
this public IP will need to be forwarded to this DNS server's IP.
Example:
In the Forward Lookup Zone for domain.com create a host record named NS1
with its public IP address. It wil then be know as NS1.domain.com register
this name and its IP address with Netsol as a name server with it public IP.
I am hosting multiple websites, Do I need a seperate DNS
domain setup for each?
Yes, you need a forward lookup zone for each domain in the form of
domain.com, domain1.com, and so on. Each of these domain FLZs will have NS
records named NS1.domain.com.
I am using the DNS mmc that is part of Administrative
tools, is this the best way to setup this server as a Name
Server to have it registered with netsol?
Answered previously
Can I host websites on the same server that is the
Internet DNS Name Server?
Yes, you can but there are two gotchas,
1. If you need resolution for these domains from within the same NAT device
you will need two DNS servers, one for private records and one for public
records. Do not try to do this from the same DNS server! It won't work.
2. If you intend to be completely independent of external DNS server you
*MUST* have two publicly avialable IP addresses,should be to two machines
and should be in separate class "C" address spaces.
Why is it if I make a change to C:\WINNT\system32
\dns\###.dns it does not reflect the change in the DNS-MMC?
You must reload the zone to edit your zone file this way.
Which if these is actually referenced by internic?
Will this work if I only have 1 dns name server and 1
static IP? I was just going to keep the secondary
nameserver with RR. Will websearches always look for ns1
and if that fails go to ns2. I figure if my ns1 server is
down my websites are down as well so a ns2 with RR would
not matter anyway. Unless it uses ns2 as a load balancing
thing?
You can get someone else to host your secondary DNS but it won't happen
automatically you need to allow zone transfers to their DNS and they will
have to set up the secondary DNS. If you do this you will also have to
create an NS record for their DNS server for Secondary Zones they host. I'm
not sure if RR will host secondaries, some ISPs offer this for no charge for
either setup or hosting
All this being said, when you register a domain name you are required to
have two DNS servers, some registrars do not charge, but I think Netsol is
charging 14.95 a year now. But the catch22 is you need a domain name to
register a name server host name for, you are going to have to do this in
steps. 1, get a domain name, 2, register a name server using the domain
name, 3 transfer DNS to this name server. You are going to have to allow 24
to 48 hours between these step to allow for propagation.
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