I am in the process of trying to host several web sites in house.
Currently I am hosting one and just having the company that registered
the domain name point it to our IP address. My question is how to I
host my own DNS to just have the domain rest on our computer example
"dns.mydomain.com". I know it would be easier to just have them point
it to our IP address, but I really want to learn how to do it. Any
advice? Tutorials to go to or books to go to. Or how could I simply do
this?

you create the A records for the web sites on your DNS server. You then go
to your Registrar and change the NS records to point to the names/IP of your
DNS servers. Give it about 24 hours and people should be able to now find
your published web servers.

Deji

<mackbarnes@mac.com> wrote in message
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>I am in the process of trying to host several web sites in house.
> Currently I am hosting one and just having the company that registered
> the domain name point it to our IP address. My question is how to I
> host my own DNS to just have the domain rest on our computer example
> "dns.mydomain.com". I know it would be easier to just have them point
> it to our IP address, but I really want to learn how to do it. Any
> advice? Tutorials to go to or books to go to. Or how could I simply do
> this?
>

I now got the rest set up, the problem that I am having is with the A
record. What exactly do I need to do with that?

Thanks


deji wrote:
> you create the A records for the web sites on your DNS server. You then go
> to your Registrar and change the NS records to point to the names/IP of your
> DNS servers. Give it about 24 hours and people should be able to now find
> your published web servers.
>
> Deji
>
> <mackbarnes@mac.com> wrote in message
> news:1144199669.687846.54100@j33g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
> >I am in the process of trying to host several web sites in house.
> > Currently I am hosting one and just having the company that registered
> > the domain name point it to our IP address. My question is how to I
> > host my own DNS to just have the domain rest on our computer example
> > "dns.mydomain.com". I know it would be easier to just have them point
> > it to our IP address, but I really want to learn how to do it. Any
> > advice? Tutorials to go to or books to go to. Or how could I simply do
> > this?
> >

Say you have a webiste called www.thiswebsite.com. It is hosted on your web
server with an IP address of 1.2.3.4

On your DNS server you'd create a zone called thiswebsite.com
Then inside the thiswebsite.com zone you'd create an A record called www,
and you will give it the IP address of 1.2.3.4
That's all. An "A" record is the same as "Host" record.

Deji

<mackbarnes@mac.com> wrote in message
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>I now got the rest set up, the problem that I am having is with the A
> record. What exactly do I need to do with that?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> deji wrote:
>> you create the A records for the web sites on your DNS server. You then
>> go
>> to your Registrar and change the NS records to point to the names/IP of
>> your
>> DNS servers. Give it about 24 hours and people should be able to now find
>> your published web servers.
>>
>> Deji
>>
>> <mackbarnes@mac.com> wrote in message
>> news:1144199669.687846.54100@j33g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>> >I am in the process of trying to host several web sites in house.
>> > Currently I am hosting one and just having the company that registered
>> > the domain name point it to our IP address. My question is how to I
>> > host my own DNS to just have the domain rest on our computer example
>> > "dns.mydomain.com". I know it would be easier to just have them point
>> > it to our IP address, but I really want to learn how to do it. Any
>> > advice? Tutorials to go to or books to go to. Or how could I simply do
>> > this?
>> >
>

I now got the rest set up, the problem that I am having is with the A
record. What exactly do I need to do with that?

Thanks


deji wrote:
> you create the A records for the web sites on your DNS server. You then go
> to your Registrar and change the NS records to point to the names/IP of your
> DNS servers. Give it about 24 hours and people should be able to now find
> your published web servers.
>
> Deji
>
> <mackbarnes@mac.com> wrote in message
> news:1144199669.687846.54100@j33g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
> >I am in the process of trying to host several web sites in house.
> > Currently I am hosting one and just having the company that registered
> > the domain name point it to our IP address. My question is how to I
> > host my own DNS to just have the domain rest on our computer example
> > "dns.mydomain.com". I know it would be easier to just have them point
> > it to our IP address, but I really want to learn how to do it. Any
> > advice? Tutorials to go to or books to go to. Or how could I simply do
> > this?
> >