Firstly, please let me apologise for asking a question I know has been gone over thousands of times, I sent a similar note to the OpenSRS list yesterday and it hasn't turned up. I've also tried the various mailing lists archives, other online resources have googled extensively and if anything am more confused that when I began...
I'm running a cobalt RAQ 4, I've passed the OpenSRS tests for full perl version, and the perl bits-and-pieces are all working and happily doctored to my sites design. I'm in the process of taking care of the payment side of things, so I'm *almost* ready to start selling domains along side the hosting space...(currently domains are bought elsewhere, such as freeparking.co.uk and then pointed to my main IP address in their DNS Manager.) My servers domain name was registered by my upstream/connectivity provider, clara.net. A lookup on our domain name points to their name servers. NS0.CLARA.NET 195.8.69.7 NS1.CLARA.NET 195.8.69.12 We have an individual IP aaa.bbb.cc.dd and an have an additional range of aaa.bbb.ee.0 - 255. Anyway, I've set up DNS on the RAQ as per the Cobalt user manual instructions. I want the RAQ to be the primary nameserver for domains I register. I will possibly use granitecanyon for secondary. I just want to register domains with the OpenSRS system, point them to my RAQ and job done... I presume that for the RAQ to work as a nameserver I need to register with some organisation. Who and how? Or is adding a nameserver on the OpenSRS manage page enough? Currently if I try to add my domain as the nameserver it refuses with an error: "Unable to add nameserver: Command failed: unable to verify existence of nameserver" I've had a look at netsol but can't find quite what I think I need in their labyrinthine web site to register my nameserver...if that is necessary... Also, while I'm based in the UK the main address for my web site is a dot com, so do I register with netsol or should I be looking elsewhere? Indeed, is this step necessary or do OpenSRS take care of this element too? Every one seems to use ns0.domain.tld, should I create a new virtual site with a hostname of ns0 for a nameserver? Should I assign it the same main IP as mydomainname.com or give it one from the range we have? I'm not sure if anything actually works at all, I've tried http://www.mydomainname.com works as DNS is presumably handled from claranet, but without the host http://mydomainname.com doesn't even though I've added it to the Web Server Aliases under Site Management and in the DNS parameters. Any guidance very gratefully received...and if you're ever in central London I'll even buy you a beer ;) Kind regards, Liam
