Re: [cobalt-users] DNS Questions

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:49 PM 2/25/00 -0800, you wrote:

>         I am new to the DNS server on the Cobalt GUI, I have been using NT
> DNS server and am fairly familiar with it. I want to set up my Cobalt server
> as a DNS server.

If you're really planning on setting up hundreds of domains, you'll find 
you can do it a lot more quickly by circumventing the RaQs gui interface 
for the DNS server.

>  I want the primary NS server as ns1.domain.com but I want
> my main hostname as spike.domain.com.

Fine.  Just tell Network Solutions (or whoever <domain.com> is registered 
with) to set up a host record for <ns1.domain.com> pointed to the main IP# 
of your RaQ, or for any other IP# on the RaQ.

The problem is with people who use something like "nslookup".  The 
"nslookup" client uses reverse DNS on the nameserver IP# to list the name 
of the nameserver.  So you can set up reverse DNS for the IP# for any fully 
qualified domain name you want.  You can use two separate IP#s, and reverse 
one to <spike.domain.com> and another to <ns1.domain.com>.

Or is there somewhere else you want the name of the nameserver to be listed?

Jeff

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