Hello all,

I have a small question. I've been Googling for a while, and reading in
a book I bought (DNS and BIND), and I still can't figure this out.
Typically, when you register a domain, you're asked for the nameserver
address, and it's typically something like ns1.yourserver.com. My
question is how exactly you'd do this if nobody knows where
yourserver.com's nameservers are yet. Obviously, you could enter the IP
address of the machine as the nameserver, but I've been poking around,
and it doesn't look like anyone does this.

For example, the nameservers for dreamhost.com are ns1.dreamhost.com
and ns2.dreamhost.com. How exactly does DNS work in this reguard? I
mean, I request dreamhost.com, I get sent to ".", then "com.", then
that says that I should look at "ns1.dreamhost.com." for dreamhost.com,
right? But it doesn't know what dreamhost.com is yet.

So, really, to state this in another way.. I'm setting up a server for
a new domain. DNS is installed and it's responding to all of the zones
that it needs to respond to, but when I connect it to the Internet,
where would I start getting domains resolving with my nameserver? The
first place to start would be my registrar for the server's base name
(i.e. if it's ns1.mysite.com, I'd start with the registrar for
mysite.com), and I'd set its name servers to my name server. But
exactly, how? By IP address?

Anyway. This is a problem that is driving me nuts trying to figure out
.

Thanks in advance!


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Keith Gable
http://www.ignition-project.com/