Karl J. Runge writes:
> Since we're on the topic of domain names, here's a question:
>
> Suppose one had a Mediaone cable modem account that provided
> DNS naming of your (DHCP supplied) IP address. E.g. the hostname was
> "runge.ne.mediaone.net".
>
> Now suppose you obtained from internic the domain name "fubar.com"
>
> What all is needed to meet the 2 DNS hosts requirement? Is one more
> distinct machine be needed? Or 2 more because the mediaone box is under
> DHCP?
0, 1, or 2, depending on how you do it.
0 -- if you get Mediaone to do the work for you and have their
equipment act at primary and secondary servers, in the same manner as
you got "runge.ne.mediaone.net".
1 -- if you, for example, configure a primary DNS server on your
machine and then configure an external server as a secondary -- check
out one of the free DNS providers for hosting the secondary server
(dyndns.org, ez-ip.net, etc.) If you're going to do this you should
publish the secondary address with the Internic -- after all, this
server will always be available, whereas your box running DHCP might
not...
2 -- if you decide to let one of the (probably free) DNS providers
provide the primary and secondary service for you.
If you choose either of the latter two scenerios you almost certainly
want to check out some of the freely available tools for updating your
DNS records when your DHCP lease expires. Some of them can even be
run via cron or from the dhcpd , which is very handy!
So you have a lot of options here.
--kevin
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