** Very Confused: IP's, Modify Internic Registration **
pac...@iname.com
Could someone "Please" help me understand how the internet is really working
and how I could solve my problems:
I constructed two servers and have a DSL line in operation working fine. But
I am using my ISP's IP's under my internic domain name registrations.
Therefore, I am not able to use a backup server; i.e., primary and secondary.
Also I would like to create as many hostnames to my domain name; e.g.,
news.ampmlive.com, jobs.ampmlive.com, chess.ampmlive.com. The reason I cannot
use my two servers as primary and secondary is because Internic will not
allow me to use my two IP's, which are loaned to me by my ISP, for my domain
name servers. Therefore, I must use my ISP's IP's which point to his server
and direct the traffic to a single IP which points to one of my servers.
Currently my ISP recognizes two of my domain's: www.ampmlive.com and just
ampmlive.com. I do not wish to bother him every time I want to change or add
another hostname.
Internic has pointed me to arin.net which is responsible for American IP's.
Do I need to purchase IP's to do what I want and if so do I really need to
pay $2500 per year? Perhaps I need to find an ISP that will loan me
"Registered" IP's so I could use them to modify my internic domain server
list registration.
Please respond via email:
pac...@iname.com
Thank you very much!
Regards,
Paul
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Barry Margolin
>Hello,
>
>Could someone "Please" help me understand how the internet is really working
>and how I could solve my problems:
>
>I constructed two servers and have a DSL line in operation working fine. But
>I am using my ISP's IP's under my internic domain name registrations.
>Therefore, I am not able to use a backup server; i.e., primary and secondary.
> Also I would like to create as many hostnames to my domain name; e.g.,
>news.ampmlive.com, jobs.ampmlive.com, chess.ampmlive.com. The reason I cannot
>use my two servers as primary and secondary is because Internic will not
>allow me to use my two IP's, which are loaned to me by my ISP, for my domain
>name servers. Therefore, I must use my ISP's IP's which point to his server
>and direct the traffic to a single IP which points to one of my servers.
>Currently my ISP recognizes two of my domain's: www.ampmlive.com and just
>ampmlive.com. I do not wish to bother him every time I want to change or add
>another hostname.
You should get your ISP to configure their servers as secondary servers,
with your machine as the primary. Then you make the changes to the domain
on your server, and their secondary server will automatically transfer the
updates. It doesn't matter that your server isn't listed with the
InterNIC.
--
Barry Margolin, bar...@bbnplanet.com
GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA
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glen herrmannsfeldt
(snip)
>You should get your ISP to configure their servers as secondary servers,
>with your machine as the primary. Then you make the changes to the domain
>on your server, and their secondary server will automatically transfer the
>updates. It doesn't matter that your server isn't listed with the
>InterNIC.
Yes, I recommend this. But it takes a lot of work. I did this with our
ISP, a popular semi-national ISP. Everytime I call about it, they say
"No, you can't do that, wait I will check with the DNS guru."
(wait about five minutes) "Oh, yes you can!".
They have some automated tool that extracts the DNS address from internic,
and need a manual override to do this. Very strange.
-- glen
Barry Margolin
glen herrmannsfeldt <g...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
That's a problem with this specific ISP, not a general issue.