From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 3:28:13 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 643B637B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 03:28:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from voo.doo.net (voo.doo.net [81.17.45.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 098B443E6E for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 03:28:09 -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 g7TARx7A022542; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:28:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:27:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders X-X-Sender: To: Matthew Seaman Cc: Grant Cooper , Subject: Re: Bind vs free dns providers In-Reply-To: <20020828203422.GB2892@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Message-ID: <20020829122450.W22530-100000@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 21:34 [=GMT+0100], Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 07:52:08PM +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote: > > 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. > > Um... You can reserve a domain name, but for all practical purposes it > doesn't count unless you've got nameservers set up and the NS records > have been entered into the TLD zone data. Exactly what I said, except that I used the word 'register' in stead of the less formal 'reserve'. > > > 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. > > True. Many registries don't enforce these requirements Exactly what I said. Can you name a registry that does enforce the distinct networks rule? -- Marc Schneiders http://marc.schneiders.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message