[plug] DNS problem

[Bernard Blackham]

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Ryan wrote:
> As long as you make a tld and correctly qualify it in bind it will
> work internally as if it was a real domain.

Okay, kinda on the topic, I've done exactly that here with a few machines,
running all with the domain of .home. A while ago I recall being told or
hearing somewhere that .home will soon be a TLD, along with a few others.
Doing some further research I figured they were bluffing about the .home
bit, but there are some more proposed TLDs, that you'd want to stay away
from when choosing your domain name.

http://www.icann.org/tlds/

So far there's .aero, .biz, .coop, .info, .museum, .name and .pro. Either
way, if you use a TLD that's fairly unique (perhaps not like .home) then
you'll be more future-proofed.

If you need any help setting it up, there's heaps of info about setting up
DNS servers on the net, (bind.org is a good start) or I can send you my
config offlist as a sample.

Regards,

Bernard.

> At 10:21 AM 5/24/01 +0800, you wrote:
> >         Since we are on the topic of DNS, I also have a question
> >
> >         I have a LAN connected to the internet. I recently got an account on
> >DHS.ORG, to point to my server.
> >
> >         I have a caching only DNS server on the box, which works (I just
> >fudged it, I havent read up on DNS yet)
> >
> >         For interests sake, I want to play around with dynamic DNS (I have
> >DHCPD running on the server also). Basically I want to be able to resolve
> >the addresses of my local boxen via the dns server instead of /etc/hosts or
> >c:\windows\hosts etc.....
> >
> >         Ive named my boxes things like 'server' and 'bigkahoona'..... so
> >whats the zone? Would I have to create a fake domain, so my boxen would be
> >something like 'server.mydomain' and setup the zone file? I think that a
> >'blank' zone is the root zone, so I cant really do that.
> >
> >         Has anyone else setup a dns server in this manner? Is it possible?
> >Or do I really need to go the whole hog and register a domain?

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 Bernard Blackham
 bernard at blackham.com.au