newbie DNS question

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Thu Aug 12 20:13:36 UTC 1999


In article <37B2EBB0.3876CA6A at acs.tamu.edu>,
Steve Hodgson  <shh5455 at acs.tamu.edu> wrote:
>I want to run DNS on my linux box so that I don't have to pay a provider
>to host my domain.  This may seem like a dumb question, but when you
>register your domain with the InterNIC, do you enter the IP addresses of
>the DNS servers or just the host name?  If you just enter the host name,
>then why wouldn't the following situation be a problem:

Have you looked at the domain registration form?  Doesn't it have a place
for you to fill in *both* the name and address?

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