Re: [cobalt-developers] dns setup

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Marcus wrote:

> Are you running DNS for your own internals or for public Internet
> resolution? Unless you are an ISP (possibly even if) your Upper Level
> provider should do your primary DNS,

Why?  This certainly isn't what most of us are doing.

> but you would register your ns
> servers with them and other backbone providers.

How do you register your nameserver with your ISP?  How do you register
them with other backbone providers?  I've been serving DNS
professionally for years, and this is the first time I've heard of
this.  Am I missing something?  I know how to register my nameservers
with my registrar, but I've never registered them anywhere else.

> There is an excellent
> book from O'Reilly Press called Bind,

Do you mean "DNS and Bind"?
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