Hi,

I'm new to Linux and not had to get so involved with networks til now.
Anyway, I set up my primary DNS using BIND, and it was pretty simple, so I'll be doing the secondary one now.

dig @11.22.33.44 mygreatdomain.com

resolves back to it's self, which is correct

but dig mygreatdomain.com doesn't, which is also correct because at the moment mygreatdomain.com is hotsed elsewhere.

dig @11.22.33.44 ns1.mygreatdomain.com also resolves to itself, so my question is when I go change my DNS entries with the registrar should I put ns1.mygreatdomain.com or 11.22.33.44

Now if I put the ns1.greatdomain.com how does the network find it cos it won't know the ip address til it goes to 11.22.33.44 to look?

Sorry for such a simple question, can someone give me a simple answer or a link to read up that will explain?

I've read up the basics on how DNS works, but this bit I can't figure...

dave

Dave:

I suggest that you are making a mountain out of a molehill.
When you change you site information with your registrar
they will probably have a form for you to fill out. Simply
supply the requested information.

If you asked this quistion becouse you are curious and
"want to know" perhaps this will help:

The registrars DNS will have a NS record which will associate
your domain name with the name of your name server.
It will also have an A record which will associate the name
of your name server with its IP address.

Thanks for the reply.

I want to know, yes firstly thru curiousity, but also I want to get this step right.

When I've changed the DNS enrties in the past with my resgitrars theres only two boxes to fill in. Primary and secondary DNS.

Now as I said before if I use ns1.mygreatserver.com I can't figure how they ever know how to get the IP address of it.

Is there some mechanism on the net whereby magically, cos I've set up thes named DNS entries they will propogate up the tree?

Sorry to be so stupid, but when I don't know the answer to something it bugs me ;-)

EDIT:

I just went to my registrar and there's another button you click if you have your own name server and yes you do have to enter the ip address.

So now I'm happy ;-)

thanks for all the help

dave