Getting started

[Joseph S D Yao]

> I'm in the process of getting a DSL pipe and will be handling the
> primary and secondary DNS services myself.  One issue though has me
> vexed.
> 
> For the purposes of this discussion, let's say I'll name these two servers
> ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com.  Here's what has me confused.
> mydomain.com is not yet regiestered with Internic.  So, when I fill out
> the form to register mydomain.com, it will ask for the names and IPs of
> the primary and secondary DNS servers.  So, even though mydomain.com does
> not yet exist, should I simply put ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com
> along with their IP addresses?

Hi, Michael.

There's also a host template.  You can register the hosts first, then
register the domain with the hosts you had registered as the name
servers.  See <URL: ftp://networksolutions.com/template/host-template.txt>.

Of course, things are constantly changing.  You might want to check
<URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/help/registration/inst_newreg.html>.

OBTW, Network Solutions instead of InterNIC.  And several others, once
they figure out how to do it.

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