Why are they asking for both the DNS server and the IP?

[Brad Davis]

agreed..
----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Ames <steve at virtual-voodoo.com>
To: Jackrabbit Slim <jackrabbit at taxplus.net>; <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: Why are they asking for both the DNS server and the IP?


>
> If you put the pacbell.net address it'll be rejected because if you use a
> hostname that
> is not already a registered host you are implying that it should become a
> registered
> host. Since you are not an authoritative contact for 'pacbell.net' you
will
> be rejected.
> Use your own domain name: ns1.mydomain.com and the IP. ns1.mydomain.com
> will then become a registered host and to change its IP in the future you
> can submit
> a host change form and not a zone change form.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jackrabbit Slim" <jackrabbit at taxplus.net>
> To: <bind-users at isc.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 2:35 PM
> Subject: RE: Why are they asking for both the DNS server and the IP?
>
>
> >
> > So if my dsl provider (Pacbell) has assigned me a host name of
> > "adsl-123-456-789-123.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net" should I put that into the
> > first field?
> >
> > or should I put www.mydomain.com in there assuming that the ip address I
> put
> > into the second field will make it stick?
> >
> > Could I leave the first field blank and still expect it to work?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
> > Behalf Of Brad Davis
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:15 AM
> > To: Jackrabbit Slim; bind-users at isc.org
> > Subject: Re: Why are they asking for both the DNS server and the IP?
> >
> >
> >
> > you want to do it the second way...
> >
> > first DNS: should be the host and domain name of the box.. aka
> > www.mydomain.com
> > first IP: the ip address of the dns server
> >
> >
> > Brad
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Jackrabbit Slim <jitterbuggin at balboafeet.com>
> > To: <bind-users at isc.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:48 AM
> > Subject: Why are they asking for both the DNS server and the IP?
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I have a domain registered that I want to point to my Linux box.  When
I
> > go
> > > to change the DNS entry for the domain there are 4 fields I can fill
in:
> > >
> > > First DNS:
> > > First IP:
> > > Second DNS:
> > > Second IP:
> > >
> > > I have set up the most simple case... both BIND and Apache on my
single
> > > Linux box at 123.456.789.123.  I should be able to just fill in a
single
> > one
> > > of those 4 fields to point to the named server on the box right?  Like
> so:
> > >
> > > First DNS: 123.456.789.123
> > > First IP:
> > > Second DNS:
> > > Second IP:
> > >
> > > or should it be like this?:
> > >
> > > First DNS:
> > > First IP: 123.456.789.123
> > > Second DNS:
> > > Second IP:
> > >
> > > My question here is that I don't really understand why they ask for
both
> > the
> > > DNS server and an IP.  Which one I should fill in?
> > >
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