hello

i have to admit i am a moron...

can someone explain the whole name server issue to me?

let's use an example...

say i was reselling for company x and company y, and used my own nameservers, i would somehow be able to point various domains to each company?

can someone explain how that works? do they just point to an ip address, and the company who controls that ip address kinda hosts that site, type deal?

hmm, i don't even make sense to myself, oh well, good luck

First sign of someone who ISN'T a moron, is that they ask questions!

say i was reselling for company x and company y, and used my own nameservers, i would somehow be able to point various domains to each company?

First, when you say you "used your own nameservers", keep in mind that you aren't really using your 'own' nameservers. Chances are they are aliasing their nameservers (similar to how you can point two differnent domains to one website).

You may not be able to change a thing. Often you aren't given access to the nameserver itself, nor any sort of control panel that would allow you to add/delete/modify anything. It is simply an alias that you can put in place of their nameservers (ns1.you.com instead of ns1.yourhost.com).

To better understand what you can do, check out free DNS services such as zonedit.com or centralinfo.net and sign up for an account. You will see some of the settings that are available if you were to run the DNS yourself. (Keep in mind that I highly doubt you'd be able to do any of this with 'your' nameservers. Chances are, this is what your host will do for you).

Yes, you can point a domain to an IP address that is assigned to a server, but there's much more to it than that. Check out those sites, and maybe that will give you a better idea of what it's all about.

First sign of someone who ISN'T a moron, is that they ask questions!

i'm wondering... what would the first sign of someone who IS a moron be, then...?




yes, i (sorta, not really) understand the virtual namerserver issue, but i didn't want to get an account at mydomain.com just to see (scared of spam... :) )

maybe i will though...

do hosts generally let you use your own nameservers? (not virtual ones... )