From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 10:52:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F2C37B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from voo.doo.net (voo.doo.net [81.17.45.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BFCF43E42 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:52:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by voo.doo.net (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7SHq97A020112; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 19:52:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 19:52:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders X-X-Sender: To: Matthew Seaman Cc: Grant Cooper , Subject: Re: Bind vs free dns providers In-Reply-To: <20020828081430.GC15742@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Message-ID: <20020828194631.N19814-100000@voo.doo.net> X-Preferred-email-to: marc@schneiders.org X-Other-email-to: marc@venster.nl X-Organization: Venster (Zeist - NL) X-URL: http://www.bijt.net/ X-SOA: A.ROOT-SERVERS.ORSC. X-OS: FreeBSD: The Power to Serve MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, at 09:14 [=GMT+0100], Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 01:01:24AM -0600, Grant Cooper wrote: > > I've been reading on dns packages specifically Bind from ports. I am > > currently using zoneedit to point to me but I would like to do this myself. > > I only have 1 IP and I was told by my provider I HAVE to have 2. [...] > However, if you want to run a server that is authoritative for one or > more domains then the requirements are a bit more stringent. In order > to register a domain with one of the various registries around the net > you need to have at least two servers carrying your zone data Some registries for country code domains (which have the two-letter end, like .fr, .de, .us) do require this. To register a com/net/org domain you need _no_ nameservers. Of course you cannot use it then. > and > those should a) have fixed IP addresses and b) be hosted on distinct > networks The being hosted on different networks is a good idea. I am curious which Top Level Domain demands this. For com/net/org/info/biz/us and most other country codes it is not necessary. [...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message