Question for the smart people! (DNS stuff)

[Acerbus]

Hey everyone .. i have a few questions here if you'll take the time to help me out

I recently registered a domain name (with privacy) ... and installed mandrake linux + apache + BIND software on my comp the other day

Godaddy.com is the place i registered my name ... and they require that i have two name servers ... ( i am going to use my machine for the server )

i cant figure out for the life of me how to set up a DNS. ive searched the past couple days and looked over the named.conf and how to make .zone files etc a million times .. and cant make two cents of it.

Do i absolutely have to contact my isp for their DNS names to use for my site? or should i be able to just "create" one on my own?

Anyone here know how to set up a DNS at all?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[Wojtek]

never done this but:

1) its not your isp's problem, but yours
2) do you have a static IP? (cable modem or some dsl)
3) if yes, put that IP in the nameserver field
4) if no, use some nds2go or similar servis (creates a yourname.dns2go.com address that refreshes to your IP each time you boot your pc)
5) changes should take 72+ hours
6) keep in mind some isp's block port 80 and prohibit you from transforming your box to a server using them as isp.

 

[Acerbus]

hey thanks for the reply

well ... i dont know if you've ever heard ot TZO.com .... but its similar to dns2go.com .... i have a dynamic ip .. and tzo let me create a xxx.tzo.com address ... and it refreshes to my ip everytime i boot

but when i tried entering that in for my namserver at godaddy.com under my domain .... it said invalid nameserver

so i went to mydomain.com and subscribed to use a couple of their nameservers ... and those seem to work .... however when they ask me to enter in my ip address for their nameservers to use .. they wont let me enter in xxx.tzo.com ... they only want a #.#.#.# type ip entered ... and well i dont have a dynamic ip

so what do i have to like update mydomain.com nameservers everytime my comp boots with my new ip?

 

[Neko]

I havent tried it, but have you tried cnaming to your tzo subdomain? Just a thought since I dont really know much about DNS servers and all.

 

[Acerbus]

thats a good idea

i was scanning the forums at mydomain.com and another guy Cnamed his .tzo.com address and it worked for him apparently

so about 4 hours ago i made the change and i'll have to see if it works

i'll come back here with the results

thanks for the input guys

 

[heatfan]

Originally posted by Acerbus
Hey everyone .. i have a few questions here if you'll take the time to help me out

I recently registered a domain name (with privacy) ... and installed mandrake linux + apache + BIND software on my comp the other day

Godaddy.com is the place i registered my name ... and they require that i have two name servers ... ( i am going to use my machine for the server )

i cant figure out for the life of me how to set up a DNS. ive searched the past couple days and looked over the named.conf and how to make .zone files etc a million times .. and cant make two cents of it.

Do i absolutely have to contact my isp for their DNS names to use for my site? or should i be able to just "create" one on my own?

Anyone here know how to set up a DNS at all?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

eNom just lauched Dynamic DNS updates .

 

[CareBear]

I'm not sure exactly what you want to do..

If you want to run your own nameserver (host your own DNS): you can't use a dynamic IP as a nameserver, it has to be a static one (you need two of them anyway).
What you put as a name in the DNS doesn't really matter, it doesn't have to exist (which is why GoDaddy can make it look like you have private nameservers for shared hosting) but the IP has to.
So even if you put your dynamic IP address, the next time it changes you'll have to update your nameservers and wait the 24-72 hours it takes to propagate the internet.

If you want to host your website on your own computer that's something different. You'll need to find a company that provides DNS hosting for your domain (something like mydomain.com) but you need to make sure they issue a relatively short TTL.
Regular TTL (Time To Live) for a dns name is 24 hours which means that if you get a new IP from your ISP at worst it would take 23 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds before people would get the new IP and be able to visit your site again.