newbie need help to confrigure own DNS

J.Bakshi joydeep at infoservices.in
Wed May 2 04:14:42 UTC 2007


Dave Henderson wrote:
> I checked again today and it still hasn't been registered.  Bakshi,
> you will need to register a website so that you "own" it before you
> can have BIND host records for the domain.

OK, now I have a domain which is really working.   it is   opendingo.com
and it is pointing to my server. it has only A record and no MX record.
so what is next ?

>
> Dave
>
>
> */Beech Rintoul <freebsd at alaskaparadise.com>/* wrote:
>
>     On Sunday 29 April 2007, J.Bakshi said:
>     > Dave Henderson wrote:
>     > > If you can provide the contents of your bind configuration files,
>     > > I would be better at seeing where the problems lie.
>     > >
>     > > What is your domain name (fully qualified ie www.domainname.com)
>     > > and what if the address of the server you are wanting it to point
>     > > to?
>     > >
>     > > Dave
>     >
>     > Thanks to all responders,
>     >
>     > here is the domain I created a few days ago with webmin, but it is
>     > not working
>     >
>     > -----------------------------------
>     > $ttl 38400
>     > joy.edu. IN SOA lvps87-230-8-228.dedicated.hosteurope.de.
>     > joydeep.infoservices.in. (
>     > 2007042502
>     > 10800
>     > 3600
>     > 604800
>     > 38400 )
>     > joy.edu. IN NS lvps87-230-8-228.dedicated.hosteurope.de.
>     > ns1.joy.edu. IN A 87.230.8.228
>     > joy.edu. IN A 87.230.8.228
>     > ----------------------------------------------
>
>     The domain joy.edu does not appear to be registered in the .edu tld.
>     Registration information can be found here for .edu:
>
>     http://www.educause.edu/edudomain/index.asp
>
>     Beech
>
>     >
>     > > */"J.Bakshi" /* wrote:
>     > >
>     > > Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>     > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:27:03PM +0530,
>     > > > J.Bakshi wrote
>     > > >
>     > > > a message of 55 lines which said:
>     > > >> now I have a domain called
>     > > >
>     > > > Called what?
>     > > >
>     > > >> which is pointed to my remote root server.
>     > > >
>     > > > Please do not use "root server" which is very confusing
>     > > > when it
>     > >
>     > > comes
>     > >
>     > > > to DNS (the "root servers" are the 13 machines that serve
>     > > > the root zone). Just say "my server".
>     > > >
>     > > >> now What can I do with bind and webmin to utilise the
>     > > >> domain ?
>     > > >
>     > > > You must learn DNS and BIND. The paper reference is Liu &
>     > > > Albitz
>     > >
>     > > "DNS
>     > >
>     > > > and BIND" (O'Reilly editor). The online source are:
>     > > >
>     > > > http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/
>     > > > http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/arm93
>     > > > http://www.bind9.net/
>     > > >
>     > > > Some possible tutorials are:
>     > > >
>     > > > http://www.madboa.com/geek/soho-bind/
>     > > > http://www.section6.net/wiki/index.php/Using_DNS_with_BIND
>     > >
>     > > My thanks and respect to Stephane Bortzmeyer for his helpful
>     > > guidance and the links.
>
>
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