fred orispaa wrote:
> >1. when I go to the internic site and fill out the form to register my
> >domain they ask me for the Primary and Secondary DNS servers. Which DNS
> >servers are they talking about? BTW, I'm in the process of reading the
> >ORielly DNS book.
>
> you need to have two DNS servers housing your IP address.
> either let mediaone continue handling your DNS, or else you need to set up
> one of your machines as primary and the other as secondary. its not too
> hard at all, the DNS-howto is very well written and i got i all working in
> less than an hour (and it was my first attempt). if you've only got the two
> computers, i would recommend the first option. the only drawback really
> (besides possibly a small fee) is that if you want to add more names to
> your network (www.xyz.com, ftp.xyz.com, etc) you will always need to ask
> them to include it, instead of being able to do it yourself.
you can also sign up for DNS-swap mailing list. it's a list for people in
need of secondary DNS and also people wiling to be secondary DNS for others.
i'm not sure if this is the subscribe address....but it's the address where
messages are posted
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