Help resolving my domain name to IP addr

[Kevin Darcy]

When you registered your domain, you should have been required to provide
the names and addresses of 2 nameservers at that time. What names and
addresses did you provide? Are they serving the domain? If you already have
nameservers serving the domain, then technically all you need to do is add
your nameserver to the delegations, through your registrar, and have those
other nameservers act as slave to your machine. If they are not willing to
be slaves, then you need at least one slave to your master. Many ISP's
offer this as a service. Sometimes it's referred to as "Secondary DNS
Service". There are also some "free" DNS services, but the reliability of
those is questionable at best.


- Kevin

Alex wrote:

> Hi,
>  I have a registered domain name (say bogus.com), and a machine (called
> bogus.com) with a static IP (12.12.12.12). You can't resolve my
> bogus.com domain through any name server, but I have setup a zone in
> BIND on the bogus.com machine, so that if someone explicitly assigns
> sets their nameserver to the machine, they can resolve names, including
> bogus.com.
>  What I want to do now is be able to have any machine on the net
> pointing to me. I have seen there are several public DNS servers that
> will do this for free. Some issues I am facing are:
>
> - Should I leave the primary server as bogus.com, or have the public DNS
> take care of both primary and secondary name servers?
> - If I do have bogus.com as a primary nameserver, I must have a
> secondary name server, which has to be delegated authority by the
> primary server. Is this statement correct? If so, how do I go about
> doing this?
>
> I am not very familiar with getting registered domains resolvable by
> anyone, so any help would be greatly appreciated!