[lug] figuring out name servers

[Jason Vallery]

For reference you can find the GoDaddy howto on going this at:

http://help.godaddy.com/article.php?article_id=668&prog_id=GoDaddy&


On Dec 25, 2006, at 4:07 PM, D. Stimits wrote:

> D. Stimits wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to set up a public server with a routable IP address,  
>> via a domain at godaddy.com. Unfortunately, it wants a name for  
>> the name server, but the server is its own name server running  
>> bind, and no matter what I do, listing the dotted decimal IP  
>> addresses shows as an error. I see a "which came first, the  
>> chicken or the egg" dilemma here...if I give a name server name  
>> (not dotted decimal address) to godaddy.com, how do they know the  
>> IP of the name server? In this case the name server and actual  
>> machine being pointed at are the same thing. It also seems to  
>> mandate two name servers, but I have only 1...I can give it two  
>> aliases for the same IP, e.g., ns1 and ns2...but still it'll  
>> reject it since those names don't yet exist...I guess I'm trying  
>> to make them exist. How is it possible to create a new name server  
>> through someone like godaddy.com without having a previously  
>> registered dns server?
>>
>
> Ok, nevermind that, I found the "@" record does the job :P
>
> D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
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