[techtalk] Registering DNS servers

[Mary Gardiner]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:25:19PM +1000, jenn at simegen.com wrote:
> It depends on whether it's the nameserver for puzzling.org or for 
> weblink.com.au.
> 

For puzzling.org, weblink has one. But this is just 'going to happen some
time in the future' kind of stuff.

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> Me again: you can have a DNS on any machine you like. An unregistered 
> DNS will only be serving your own machines who use it as their source 
> for domain names/IP addresses. You only need to register a DNS if you
> want it used as an authoritative source for a domain. If that's what
> you want, you register it with the authority for that domain. (And
> a single DNS can be registered multiple times and be authoritative
> for multiple domains.)

OK, thanks.

I know about unregistered DNS, I've set it up for our house's private network.
We have our own (highly unofficial) TLD...

Mary.

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