From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 15 09:52:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1A13106564A for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:52:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdc@prgmr.com) Received: from mail.prgmr.com (mail.prgmr.com [64.62.173.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B7E8FC3C for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:52:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdc@prgmr.com) Received: from frylock.local (c-71-202-68-54.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.202.68.54]) by mail.prgmr.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527BF68B5F for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:52:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A5DA6DF.4050107@prgmr.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:52:31 -0700 From: Michael David Crawford Organization: Prgmr.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Macintosh/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: What does one call name server registration? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:52:44 -0000 Hi, I'm having a problem making myself clear to my domain name registrar's tech support. I have set up djbdns on a couple of my own servers, and want them registered AS name servers with whoever handles such registration. Most registrars allow one to just enter their hostnames and IPs and they take care of it automagically. But my once-beloved registrar HJ Linnen just outsourced all their registration services to NameScout, and they haven't got a clue. When I looked into it in my account page at NameScout, they said to email tech support, so I did. And tech support replied with the end-user instructions for assigning name servers to the domains one has registered with them. That's not what I want. What I have are two pairs in the following format: 1.2.3.4 a.ns.example.com 5.6.7.8 b.ns.example.com I would like a domain to be able to set its name servers to be a.ns.example.com and b.ns.example.com, and then when that domain is resolved the lookup is delegated to either 1.2.3.4 or 5.6.7.8. What is the process called, of registering such name servers? If I can tell NameScout support to do that for me, possibly they can get themselves a clue on my behalf. Thanks! Mike -- Michael David Crawford mdc@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen