Hi!
I am a bit new to all this DNS stuff, I am more prgrammer than network admin. So the question.
I got my domain from a local NIC (actually this is a subdomain like me.id.lv which they give for free but just one subdomain per physical person). Our local NIC do not offer any utility to manage domains, so if I want to change the host to which my domain is connected, I have to e-mail them. So this is a bit lengthy process but anyway - it is free and my site is available even for people who have just local country traffic (else I could use No-IP org as well).
Recently I thought it would be great that I could add my own subdomains for various projects. I know, locally it is just a matter of hosts file an Apache config (I have tried it and it works fine). But I want my subdomains to be accessible from outside.
So I have googled a bit and found about BIND. There are lots of tutorials how to configure it. But I could not find some info for a newbie - how it actually works and is it suited for my case? Can bind somehow add subdomains to my registered domain (well, subdomain) which is hosted by a local NIC or it is possible only if I ask from my NIC? Uhh, and then asking for that every time I want a new web project under my domain ...
If BIND somehow can push my subdomain to other DNS servers, can I then turn BIND off later when I see that it can be accessed from the outside world? Or I misunderstood and BIND does not send anything to other servers and so BIND must run all the time?
How this basically works, what I can do on my own with my domain and what I cannot? If getting a domain would be as easy as just installing bind, then I guess everyone would have it and avoid registrars... But what about subdomains?
Thanks.