From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 15 19:24:51 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 9F5C4106564A for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:24:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from guam10.hdk5.net (guam10.hdk5.net [66.180.132.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73EED8FC0C for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:24:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from mohawk7.intra.net (unknown [66.180.149.18]) by guam10.hdk5.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B36691CDA8; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:50 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <4A5E2D02.80207@hdk5.net> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:50 -1000 From: Al Plant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 FreeBSD/i386 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael David Crawford References: <4A5DA6DF.4050107@prgmr.com> In-Reply-To: <4A5DA6DF.4050107@prgmr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 19:24:51 -0000 Michael David Crawford wrote: > 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 ############### Aloha, You can use Dotster to register any server right from the web-interface. No people no nothing to deal with. Doesn't your registrar have that service? -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + < email: noc@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol