Re: [cobalt-users] Virtual Name Server

["Charles Williams \(CEO\)" <hosting.mailing.list.account@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: <baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Virtual Name Server


> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
>
> >
> > You're not actually using Network Solutions, right? If so, I (personal
> > opinion) suggest you run, don't walk, to another registrar.
>
> Seconded
>
> > on one IP; *no one* had better care what else is on it. The point of a
> > nameserver host, as I understand it, is that they want to verify that
the
> > nameservers you list actually answer for the zone you're registering. As
> > long as that basic condition is met, you can do anything else you
please.
>
> So, and I've gotten confused in the yes you can/no you can't thread
>
> Could I use two exisiting IP's to register 4 name servers?
>
> 111.222.333.88 ns1.mycompany.com
> 111.222.333.88 ns1.hiscompany.com
> 111.222.333.89 ns2.mycompany.com
> 111.222.333.90 ns2.hiscompany.com

100 % YES.  I do it all the time and it works great.  That's how all my
clients get thier virt NS servers.

1 'IN NS' statement for the domain
and 2 'IN A' statements for the name servers pointing to the IP's and your
off and running.

chuck

>
> I have a customer who is in a "dispute" situation.  NSI tells him that
> while he can not change the name of his nameservers, he can change the
> address of the servers.  Being able to share the ip's would allow him to
> have the domains active, since the company that hosted hiscompany.com
> went belly-up, so the hiscompany.com nameservers are pointing at
> cyberspace.
>
> Thom
>
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>
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