[44184] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Host Handles/Registrations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sat Nov 10 01:22:23 2001
Message-Id: <200111100621.fAA6LjMb031473@foo-bar-baz.cc.vt.edu>
To: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@tmcs.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Nov 2001 12:06:49 PST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 01:21:45 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 12:06:49 PST, Mike Batchelor said:
> --On Wednesday, November 07, 2001 11:56 AM -0800 Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
> >> DNS hosts are handled by the registrar for the domain.
> >
> > and then there is the excitement of having a host which serves domains
> > registered with many registrars
> It's the domain of the host, not the hosted domains. If your host is to be
> ns1.foobar.com, you register it via the registrar for foobar.com.
I think what Randy meant was the fun of THIS sort of thing happening:
1) Hosting company registers ns1.big-hosting.com with NetSol.
2) Joe's Bar registers itself with CheapRegister, hosted by (1), so
of course their NS is ns1.big-hosting.com even though they are joes-bar.com
3) Fred's Bowling Alley registers itself with AnotherRegistrar, who is
more picky about the NS records - so they say "ns1.freds-bowling.com" but
give the A record for ns1.big-hosting.com because that's who's actually
doing it.
4) Now just *try* and change any of this without leaving bits and
pieces of shredded and mangled DNS clue records from here to Zaire.
/Valdis
