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I have posted to this news group and have always got great answers,
Thanks a bunch.

I have a new question.  I am about to setup a new web server with a
static IP.  I am going to use the cable modem for the connection.  The
cable company will give me an IP.  I am going to then register a domain
name.  Now what.  Do I need to setup a DNS server on the web server, or
is there a public DNS server that will keep track of my domain name?
Does anybody know the answer or of a tutorial that gives a good
description of how this works?

Thank you in advance,

John Burris

The best book/tutorial I've ever read on DNS has been "DNS & Bind" by Albitz & Liu (It's an Oreilly book).  They should be able to answer your questions...

As for DNS service, I use dynu.com to host my domains off of my cabel modem.  I use AT&T Broadband, and they block my port 80 & 25, and dynu will do some port forwarding to get around this.

Hope this helps,

Adam

Hi!,

Quote:> I have posted to this news group and have always got great answers,
> Thanks a bunch.

> I have a new question.  I am about to setup a new web server with a
> static IP.  I am going to use the cable modem for the connection.  The
> cable company will give me an IP.  I am going to then register a domain
> name.  Now what.  Do I need to setup a DNS server on the web server, or
> is there a public DNS server that will keep track of my domain name?
> Does anybody know the answer or of a tutorial that gives a good
> description of how this works?

DNS-Tutorial: http://www.linuxdoc.org. (take a look at the BIND-HOWTO doco.)
As for DNS services, there are a few, you can try granitecanyon.com, the
company that you get your domain name from might also provide you with access
to their own DNS server.  Finally, you can always ask any of your friends if
they have a DNS and get them to add your zone to it.

There are a number of options available to you.

Also, the book that Adam suggests is really good as well for DNS although from
memory it focuses in the implementation section on BIND.

See ya

Dean Thompson

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It depends.  If you have 2 or more IP addresses, you can set up your own domain
servers (you need a primary and a secondary).  For best security, you want the
primary and secondary to be on separate networks, preferably in different
geographical domains, but I suspect you probably don't have that level of need.

If you have a friend who runs his/her own domains, they may be willing to host
your domain as well, or provide a second

Some domain registars may provide DNS service (for a fee).

If their terms of usage are acceptable, you might want to check out
granitecanyon.com, which proivdes public nameservers.

Many/most ISPs will provide nameserver support, sometimes at a cost, for
clients.  You do have to have the ISP set up the reverse lookup tables for your
IP addresses (ie, map IP address into a name) even if you have the forward
lookup server (map name into IP address) done elsewhere.  In the two ISP's I've
dealt with, setting up the reverse lookup was free.

In terms of documentation, there is a DNS howto in most of the Linux
distributions.  There is also a book published by O'Reily, but I've only used
the tutorial.

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