Gerard Creamer wrote:
On 27/02/2008 5:44 p.m., Jean-Francois Pirus wrote:
Ie: When you create the domain DOMAIN.com also setup A records for ns1.DOMAIN.com and ns2.DOMAIN.com wih the right ip addresses and NS records pointing to those. The registrar will create the glue records for you.
Scenario: You have (or provide DNS service for) lots and lots of domains.
You only do this for your first domain, all the others point to the ns of the 1st one
If we were to change the nameservers from nsX.DOMAIN.co.nz and nsX.DOMAIN.com the customer would have to change the DNS for every one of their hundreds of domains. Granted they'll have to do a fair amount of of this anyway to use the new name server, but they won't have to change them all, just the ones they want to move.
Why ? Surely, they are just pointers. You keep nsX.domain.co.nz pointing to 1.2.3.4 you create a new record, nsX.domain.com pointing to 1.2.3.4 when creating your first .com domain (domain.com) you point the glue record for this to 1.2.3.4 and have nsX.domain.com created, also pointing to this IP address your customers continue to use nsX.domain.co.nz any subsequent .com/.net creations use nsX.domain.com everyone is happy, you are left with a maximum of two domains to keep track of if you ever change IP addresses. We can then all go for free beer, shouted by Nathan. It appears that you're (did you see what I did there?) problem here seems to be cosmetic. -- Steve.