<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 August 2010 19:54, Daniel Case <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielcase10@googlemail.com">danielcase10@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Guys,<div><br></div><div>Can someone please help me understand how to set a nameserver up? At the moment I set it to park in my domain registrar then change the A-Record to point to my server but it would be better if i could just point a domain to my own nameservers that handle all that.</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></div></font></blockquote><div>It isn't really unless you've got a couple of machines on separate, reliable connections that you can make authoritative for the domain, and it's better to let ISPs do that. What you can do though, is have an hidden primary master as described here: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/excerpt/dnsbindcook_ch07/">http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/excerpt/dnsbindcook_ch07/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>You can manage that yourself and let upstream servers be authoritative, which gives you control over the domain without the responsibility of serving it. Not all domain companies will support it though. That book and its companion DNS and Bind will tell you more than you ever needed to know.</div>
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