Domain server question

[Morbius]

I have seen some websites that have domain servers that have the same name as the website (ie if the website is www.coolguys.com then their domain servers are ns.coolguys.com and ns2.coolguys.com ). I assume that there are companies that let you assign a name to the domain server ? Anyone know how this is accomplished and what companies might offer this service?

Thanks in advance.

Morbius

 

[Hobbzilla]

This is just a simple case of you running a DNS server. When you register your domain, you can register name servers too. The name server is just a DNS server. You specify the IP address of your name server and volia' Your DNS servers contain your namespace. I've even seen (don't really know what the point of it is.. perhaps the registrar required 2 dns hosts) ns1.domain-name.com , ns2.domain-name.com with the SAME IP address!! Talk about non fault-tolerance. That just looks pretty. hermf.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Just keep in mind that you have to register your DNS servers with Internict and it will cost you a yearly fee. You can run DNS on your system in Linux, NT, Win2k server, etc. but if you can outsource any services (thus get your registrar to do it) make thing easy on yourself.

 

[Morbius]

Are you saying that the companies that provide the web hosting will also let you register your own domain server as well? Would it be hosted on their system?

I guess I am a little confused about all of this. If you can spell it out in basic terms, I would appreciate it.

 

[Woodchuck2000]

There's a type of entry in a DNS table called an Alias. This simply redirects more than one name to the same computer allowing people to divide websites into logical chunks (sales.company.com, support.company.com etc...) without needing loads of PCs.

As far as companies who can do this go, anyone with access to one of the internet DNS servers IE. most of the ISPs around should be able to do this for you.