Re: [cobalt-users] DNS

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ridwan wrote:

> Can I register virtual host as a name server to the internic?
> ex: My RaQ has been set to have 'www' as its machine name,

It's really NOT a good idea to use a service name (such as "www")
instead of a machine name.

Your machine name should be just that; a machine name.

> All 'www', 'ns1' and 'ns2' registered as DNS server at internic.
> In the SOA record of each domain, it will use 'www.pri-domain.com' as its
> primary server. Do I have to change it to 'ns1'? because I register the
> domain with 'ns1.pri-domain.com' as its primary DNS.

For .com, .net, and .org domains (and perhaps .edu domains, though I'm
not sure), it doesn't matter.  For most two-letter top-level domains
(.cc, .nu, .uk, etc.) it does.  You can either change your machine name
to "ns1" (not recommended; see above), change your SOA information on
each domain you set up in DNS (only on RaQ3 and above), change the
master files from which the RaQ does it's DNS setup (no, I don't know
the specific files, as we don't do it this way; someone else onlist may,
though), run DNS manually on your RaQ instead of through the gui (this
is the way we do it, since it gives us a lot more flexibility, and makes
setups go a lot faster for us), or contract out your DNS to a company
specializing in it, so things will always be right (of course this is
our business model <smile>).

> Do I have to fill secondary NS (in the SOA record)?

Nameserver (NS) records are NOT really part of the SOA record, though
Cobalt's documentation would have you believe they are.

Yes, you should have an NS record for each registered nameserver used by
the domain.

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