a little dns help
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Wed Feb 9 20:00:50 UTC 2000
In article <06098cac.28c80673 at usw-ex0106-048.remarq.com>,
cpex84 <cpex84NOcpSPAM at hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>I have a network of 4 macs and one linux machine. I am trying to run
>appache on the linux machine over dsl. I don't want to pay $100 to have
>pacbell(dsl provider) setup dns for me. What are the hardware and
>bandwith requirements to setup a fully functional dns server (primary
>and secondary) can everything (apache, primary and secondary name
>servers) run on one machine, or should i try and use some of those macs
>as name servers?
For a handful of domains one machine should be fine for everything.
>Another question. Do I already need to have a registered domain name to
>setup dns on my machines, or do I setup dns first. I am asking because
>all of the dns howtos I have read say to first register the domain name
>then setup dns, but to register a doamin name you need nameservers
You can do them in either order. To register a domain name you don't need
running nameservers, you just need to be able to tell the registrar the
name and address of the nameservers.
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