how to make my DNS server visible to others

[Sumit Mehrotra]

Yes. You have to register the host on which DNS is running. Infact, I believe the registration process (at least with NSI :) requires you to have the host as part of the domain you want to host. But there is a cute workaround to this. 
e.g if your  host is `host.somedomain.com' and the domains are domain1.com and domain2.com
register the host info for each domain respectively as :

host.domain1.com  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
host.domain2.com  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Hope this helps!

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, lucjanc@ wrote:

> Hi there, hope that someone could point me into the right direction.
> 
> We are in process of getting into hosting.  We've set our dns 
> server,(Debian/Bind)  have the first client, etc.  Now, we have some clients 
> that would like to move their domains/hosting to our server, but when they go 
> to their 'domain registrars' to change dns settings, they get 'unknown dsn 
> server' message.
> 
> Do we need to register our dsn server anywhere , to make it 'visible' to the 
> world.  Does anybody know , how these dns servers are verified.
> Reverse lookup, (nslookup) works just fine with our server.
> Is there anything else, we should be aware.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Luc
> 
> 
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