Re: dns question??

2016-01-31 Thread Pete Travis
You're a bit mixed up on the roles and nomenclature involved, let's try to sort it out. On 01/31/2016 11:57 AM, bruce wrote: > Hi. > > Researching dns/naming. (sortof fed!!) > > Assume I have a server -rackspace/digitalocean/etc.. And I and I want > to serve the DNS via something like

Re: dns question??

2016-01-31 Thread bruce
Hi Mike. What you suggest sounds like what I might need. Contact me, get me your contact data, I'll give you a call. I'll gladly pay $$$ to get this right, And for the right person, this is prob pretty straightforward, where for me, it might take some time. !! THanks -bruce badoug...@gmail.com

Re: dns question??

2016-01-31 Thread bruce
Per mike, and others. If I understand. I can purchase a domain name "foo.com" I can then use that name to have sub domains, which can then be applied to the "boxes" within the internal network. I'm assuming that there's no additional charge to use the "sub domains" but that these domains can then

Re: dns question??

2016-01-31 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 12:57 -0500, bruce wrote: > As far as I can tell, most of the sites say you need to already have > a > "name" from a domain name provider. That can't be right, can it!! One > can have a dns process internal to an org, providing dns names to > machines all over the place.

Re: dns question??

2016-01-31 Thread Mike Wright
On 01/31/2016 02:03 PM, bruce wrote: Per mike, and others. If I understand. I can purchase a domain name "foo.com" I can then use that name to have sub domains, which can then be applied to the "boxes" within the internal network. I'm assuming that there's no additional charge to use the "sub

Re: dns question??

2016-01-31 Thread Shawn Bakhtiar
Indeed Pete’s explanation was quite extensive and complete. I would just add, since you are going to have (eventually need) an external domain that’s going to host all this i.e. example.com, I don’t see why you simply would no build the infrastructure around it. Imagine a tree with the trunk

Re: dns question??

2016-01-31 Thread Mike Wright
On 01/31/2016 09:57 AM, bruce wrote: Hi. Researching dns/naming. (sortof fed!!) Assume I have a server -rackspace/digitalocean/etc.. And I and I want to serve the DNS via something like cloudflare. The test server(s) aren't going to be webservers, they're going to be used to test apps.. As

dns question??

2016-01-31 Thread bruce
Hi. Researching dns/naming. (sortof fed!!) Assume I have a server -rackspace/digitalocean/etc.. And I and I want to serve the DNS via something like cloudflare. The test server(s) aren't going to be webservers, they're going to be used to test apps.. As far as I can tell, most of the sites say

Re: dns question??

2016-01-31 Thread bruce
Hey Patrick. Thanks for the reply. The situation will potentially scale/get to: -50-100 instances on the rackspace/digitialocean cloud -the process needs the ability to externally interface with a few of the boxes/instances via name as opposed to ipaddress (thus the DNS) -the internal

Re: dns question??

2016-01-31 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 13:49 -0500, bruce wrote: > The situation will potentially scale/get to: > -50-100 instances on the rackspace/digitialocean cloud > -the process needs the ability to externally interface with a few of > the >   boxes/instances via name as opposed to ipaddress (thus the DNS) >

Re: dns question??

2016-01-31 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 31 January 2016, Shawn Bakhtiar sent: > You can also have different domain servers for authoritative (outward > facing), and a different set for the internal (perhaps the recursive > servers) that also feed up the domain but provide additional records > for the hosts that