On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Lawrence Statton <lawre...@cluon.com> wrote:
> On 05/03/2012 01:02 PM, Terry Shepherd wrote: > >> Wow. >> >> Thanks for the fast response. This is amazing. >> >> > You're welcome. I'm pretty sure on this list, the custom is not to > top-post. > > > Sorry. Getting the hang of this. > No, I did not work for that station. I am in San francisco and was in >> elementary school during the 80s. >> > > "You kids get off my lawn" :) > > > > >> What does fqdn mean and what is the authoritave server? >> > > FQDN = Fully Qualified Domain Name ... the complete name from all the way > down to the "root" (.) > > foo.bar.baz.wikipedia.org. is fully qualified > > myhost is not. > > I was somewhat sloppy in my answer - a server being "authoritative" in DNS > is waaaaaaaaay beyond the scope of this list ... what I really MEANT to say > is the "origin server" (I think that's the name -- it has been a *long* > time since I've had to quote chapter and verse from the DNS RFCs) > > It is that server which has the files that define the recordset for a zone. > > Whoever is responsible for your domain will be able to answer that > question for you (hostmas...@yourdomain.com ought to point to that person > according to a best-practices doc from some eons ago). > > As other people have mentioned, you can go w/ a third-party vendor for > this, if having a name in their domain is acceptable to your mission. > (I had no idea this service was available from other sources) > > > I like the idea of it being in our zone. Yes, I am running bind - can I hire you to help me configure the server for this? I think I can do it, but it looks like you have done this before already.
