On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 10:40:01PM -0400, Samuel Hathaway <lsy@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu> wrote: > I want to buy a domain name, and use one of my debian boxen as the primary > DNS server for it. I'm already running a caching-only DNS server, and I've > read about how to add a domain to bind. However, it seems like there's a > catch-22 involved in the registration process. NSI wants me to already have > a name server set up for the domain before I buy it. However, I thought I > would have to own a domain before I added it to my name server. So how does > one do this? First, Network Solutions sucks; don't deal with them. I buy my domains from gandi.net, and i have been very satisfied. They have very nice policies (for example, you actually own the domain), and they've very cheap. Second, you should have two name servers responding authoritatively for whatever.net before registering. That's OK even though you don't own them yet, because none of the root name servers point to yours yet. > Also, I'm within a university network. Do you think the university net > admins would have to do anything for me to get this set up? I guess I don't > fully understand the system. *sigh* This was a violation of policy when i was in school, so you should check on that before registering. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> epg@pobox.com "I will take the Ring, though i do not know the way." --Frodo Baggins
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