Hello, Step 0, would, in your case, be to contact the sysadmins at "best.com" since the whois command output for your domain lists ns1.best.com, ns2.best.com and ns3.best.com as your nameservers. Internic shouldn't be involved in that unless best.com says they won't help you if you don't keep your domain with them. In that case, you'll need to find some other nameservers to serve your new IP address, AND you'd have to modify your internic registration to point to the new nameservers. You should be able to have as many domains on your static IP address as you want. After that, you're getting into stuff I haven't done before (I have a similar set up), but I believe you would set up your local nameserver for systems on your own LAN and put it in the first search position for all your systems, keeping clipper's two nameservers as the second and third ns's. -Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, back and resubscribed after vacation. > > I've got a DNS question - I've been reading the DNS HOWTO and I > bought the DNS/BIND book. > > I've got one singular static IP from ClipperNet, with a private > network I'm managing with IP MASQ. My linux box is the box that > has the static IP and serves as the gateway (it has two ethernet > cards). > > I own an extra domain name that currently points to an ISP in > California on an account I don't want anymore. I'd like to > point the domain name to my own home network now so I don't > have to pay that ISP anymore. And so I don't have to pay > ClipperNet $75 to do it, I'd like to do it myself. Do I > have an accurate understanding of how this works? The domain > name is tangrams.com > > 0. Tell the internic to change it's address to my current > static IP > 1. Set up a caching nameserver on my gateway using its > static IP as ns.tangrams.com > 2. Have it refer to itself for all the other services like > mail.tangrams.com and www.tangrams.com, all on the same > box > > Will this work this way? And will IP Masq continue to work > the same way? Also, do I actually have to tell my ISP > anything about it? I would still like to use their nameservers > for most of my dns queries, but I also want to be able to > tell the world the dns for *my* machine by reporting out so > that email and web traffic to tangrams.com will actually > come to my box. Finally, if I brought in a second domain > name with its own email and web traffic to point to the same > box, would I need a second static IP? > > Thanks, > Curt -- _______________________________________________________ \___ Marc Baber [EMAIL PROTECTED] \___ The Bot Works, Inc. http://www.botworks.com \___ 2252 W. 29th Ave. Eugene Oregon 97405-1429 \___ Ph: 541-485-8446 FAX: 541-485-4285
