Re: [cobalt-users] Offering easy Personalized DNS to clients?

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Charles Williams ( CEO ACNS )" wrote:

> Was wondering if anyone knew of an easy way to offer clients thier own DNS
> servers with thier accounts?  maybe just a cname in the main and secondary
> that points to the main and second but with the clients domain name?  Any
> ideas?

Any linux system will run only ONE DNS server.  You can alias it with
any name you wish, and you can certainly write any SOA record you want. 
In fact we do it, we've got one RaQ3 server with probably close to a
thousand primary and secondary DNS records on it under many names.  But
we don't do it using the gui... and you can't if you're going to host
most top-level domains... here's why...

First, you need a separate IP# for each nameserver, because you can't
register more than one DNS server for each IP#.  And the servers must be
registered with whatever registrar you used to register the domain, or
they won't work.

And, for most top-level domains (but not for .com, .org, .net and .edu)
the SOA records MUST contain the right nameserver names, or the domain
won't work.  And while you can change this information manually with
RaQ3s or above, you must do it on a domain-by-domain basis, through the
gui, which is cumbersome and takes a lot of time.

And then you've got to either write your own complete gui to allow your
customer access (see the example at "http://my.sampledomain.co.uk";) or
you've got to do all the work for your customer.

Jeff
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