As a technical exercise and to learn some more about DNS I was considering host my own nameservers for a couple of none critical domains, assume .co.uk registered with Nominet.
My initial question is quite basic. Say I configure my master and slave nameservers to sit on a couple of static IP addresses. For each of my none critical domains I need to advise the registrar to update the nameservers to my new servers.
However, say I name my nameservers ns1.mydomain.co.uk and ns2.mydomain.co.uk, if I give these to the registrar, how does anyone know how to resolve ns1.mydomain.co.uk when looking up my none critical domains?
Essentially, as an individual do I a always need to rely on an external DNS service to at least identify my name servers?
I'm not sure I've explained this very well but hopefully it should be enough.
Andrew.
1. First, choose which of your "non critical domains" you want to use for your own nameservers - eg NonCriticalDomain.co.uk
2. Update Nominet's nameserver records for this domain, including the fixed ip addresses of the nameservers.
NonCriticalDomain.co.uk
ns0.NonCriticalDomain.co.uk 123.123.123.1
ns1.NonCriticalDomain.co.uk 124.124.124.2
2. For other non critical names whose dns you want to look after, update nominets dns records
OtherNonCriticalDomain.co.uk
ns0.NonCriticalDomain.co.uk
ns1.NonCriticalDomain.co.uk
AndAnotherNonCriticalDomain.co.uk
ns0.NonCriticalDomain.co.uk
ns1.NonCriticalDomain.co.uk
3. Leave your critical domains hosted by your web hosts dns servers.
CriticalDomain.co.uk
ns0.yourhostsdnsservers.co.uk
ns1.yourhostsdnsserver.co.uk
OtherCriticalDomain.co.uk
ns0.yourhostsdnsservers.co.uk
ns1.yourhostsdnsservers.co.uk
Hope this is what you meant.
I didn't realise you could provide nominet with IP addresses to accompany the nameserver hostnames for the domain hosting them.
All makes sense now.
Thanks.
