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Equilibrium
01-30-2002, 09:05 PM
I'm getting a didicated server from burstnet and want really to host resellers.

:D

What I really needed to know is thier any aspects of the nameservers (DNS) that I would have to setup to get anonymity and reliability for both regular hosting clients and reseller?

MotleyFool
01-31-2002, 05:39 AM
Hi,

It's fairly easy to set up. All you need to do is have a certain number of IP's on your server. Lets say you want to assign 1.2.3.4 and 1.2.3.5 to reseller1.com.

Then the reseller should create nameservers with his registrar like ns1.reseller1.com and ns2.reseller1.com , and while he is creating he should assign the IP's 1.2.3.4 & 1.2.3.5 to the nameservers [Network Solutions calls them hosts]

Then you should configure your DNS server to listen to those IP's With BIND I am told it is automatic, if you are a nut like me who will use djbdns then you need to configure tinydns to listen to those IP's.

And lets say reseller1.com is hosting much-ado.com, then the DNS info for much-aod.com should be changed to ns1.reseller1.com and ns2.reseller1.com.

So when some one types much-ado.com in the browser, it retunrs ns1.reseller1.com and ns2.reseller1.com as the authoritative nameservers. Now because the IP of these nameservers is on your server, the query will come to your DNS server and if it listens on the IP it knows you are expected to return the actual A,PTR or MX or whatever records for much-ado.com and it goes to your base DNS data and returns the DNS data and then we all browse happily ever after!

Hope it helps
Cheers
Balaji