When you registered your name servers you specified the IP address for each one. The parent servers then maintain "glue" records for those name servers. If you are changing the IP of your name servers then you have to update your name server registration info.
Dermot -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of IMail Admin Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] OT: Alias for DNS This is off-topic, so my apologies. I'm sure someone will have a quick answer. Can you use and Alias record for a DNS server? Or, alternatively, does the server name on a domain name registration need to be the real server name? Does the registered DNS server name matter at all, or only the IP address? Here is my thinking: when we register a domain name, we list our DNS servers by name (e.g., server12.bcwebhost.net, or whatever) and that server's IP. However, how do we handle moving the DNS services to a new server without reconfiguring the registration information for every domain name that we manage? It is easy enough to move an IP address, but you wouldn't move the server name. It would be much easier if you made up a name, such as dns1, dns2, etc., that pointed to the appropriate server, but was independent of the real server name. Thus dns1 could point to server12 today, and to server 17 tomorrow. It would seem that I only need to setup an alias record for DNS1 and have it point whereever I want. So when I want to move the DNS services to a new machine, I would only need to move the IP address and change the alias record. If this isn't right (and I'm suspicious it's not), then is there a way to do this? Thanks, Ben BC Web To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
