From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 15 11:42:43 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 4D2251065673 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:42:43 +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 3A8AA8FC08 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:42:43 +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 5E91068B5F for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:42:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A5DC0AE.4090502@prgmr.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:42:38 -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 References: <4A5DA6DF.4050107@prgmr.com> <139b44430907150349r6a171e01h9b67d0c7a5e7866a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <139b44430907150349r6a171e01h9b67d0c7a5e7866a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 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 11:42:43 -0000 Valentin and Olivier, Thank you very much for your kind help. I think what I needed were *both* NS and GLUE records. The NS record establishes a host as a nameserver, and the GLUE record allows the name server's own domain name to be within the domain it is the name server for - that is, GLUE records prevent infinite loops when looking up the domain it is a part of. I found a page in NameScout's Help section that said that if I just enter a totally new name server into my domain admin, they would take care of registering it automatically. That seems to have worked, but it was not at all obvious that that's what I needed to do. They also don't have any kind of automated interface for changing the name server info - one has to email tech support to do that. I could see it causing a lot of trouble, if confused users enter incorrect info, and NameScout interprets that as a request to establish NS and GLUE records for a new name server! Clearly, I myself have a lot of studying to do. The Wikipedia article on the Domain Name System is very helpful, for anyone else wanting info on this topic. 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