RE: [cobalt-users] is dns that important?

[Rodolfo Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Sorry for the "boss" message the other day... couldn't resist... <g>

Turned out you were too right. :( Thanks, though.

> To be sure.. I realize that *somewhere* DNS services are
> working to route to my machine... My NS.1 and NS.2 as
> registered with the world are not on my server... Perhaps the
> confusion lies in the way I was originally instructed to
> setup virts on my box...
>
> All the verts on my box use the farm's NS's which then routes
> requests to my box..

See? Someone *does* do DNS for you... :) This is the only DNS
transaction necessary: name -> ip.

> I was under the impression that I needed DNS records on my box
> and DNS server set to on to route them correctly within the
> RaQ... apparantly not so..

Definitely not so. If your provider is doing DNS for you, then great;
keep it off on your servers, save the memory, the CPU cycles, and the
risks.

> Not sure how the name based stuff works on the RaQ's but it
> must be a separate function of the DNS server

It's not DNS at all; it's Apache. Once DNS issues an IP address that
corresponds to the name given, the browsers sends to that IP address an
HTTP request which also contains the name. Apache searches the http.conf
file for a match, and returns that site.

> Farm has records as I always have to get them to set up
> pointing to any vert I set up....

This is all the DNS you need. The service must be provided by someone
but it doesn't have to be on your box.

> Make any sense?

Perfect sense now. :)

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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>