Hi All,

Ok, heres the situation.
I have Slackware 9.1 running on a server at home connected to a router then connected to BT ADSL.

Apache, PHP, Mysql etc are all running on the server and webmin is running too.
I have a script setup to update my IP address with DNS exit every 15 minutes. My server domain name is held with DNSExit.

My first question is, would I be able to run a DNS service even though my server has a dynamic IP address? Reliability is not really an issue, this is just to give myself some experience.
I figure I should be able to have a name server like 'ns1.myserver.co.uk' which knows the IP address of my server, so I personally think it would work, but hey, what do I know?

The second question is, how? where do I start, I know the basic principles of how DNS works, but I have no idea how to setup the server.
I have a spare domain name, which is parked with easily.co.uk, I want to be able to setup its DNS to point to ns1.myserver.co.uk & ns2.myserver.co.uk, then my personal DNS server should then advice what IP address the page for the requested domain is on.

I hope someone can help me here, I'm very pleased that I;ve managed to get the web server running, and now want to move onto the next step.

Thanks

Shaun

Each authoritative DNS server must be registered with your domain registrar and they must be registered both by name and by IP. In the case of a dynamic IP, this will not work.

Check out www.aboutdebian.com tutorial on DNS for good introduction to what you want to do.