mike Posted March 7, 2004 Posted March 7, 2004 HI. I see mentions of nameserver here and there and I'm a bit dumb on some of this stuff yet. Can someone explain the "nameserver" thing to me and why it would matter to me? I recall setting my "stuff" to ns1 and ns2, but, What don't I really understand? thanks. Quote
MikeJ Posted March 7, 2004 Posted March 7, 2004 (edited) I'll see if I can break it down into a brief but clear description (some of this you probably already know, but it might be helpful to someone to describe the whole thing)... All computers on the internet have an IP address that is used just like a street address on your house. It's how computer A knows how to reach Computer B. But the IP addresses are hard for humans to remember. So we have the domain name system. You register a domain name so that it becomes yours to control. So when someone wants to connect to you, they can use the names you create within your domain. However, in order to translate the human friendly names you define to computer friendly addresses, the computer has to do a lookup through the domain name system (DNS). DNS needs a way to make sure the addresses it's translating are correct, so this is why you define certain nameservers to be authoritive. This means that only the nameservers you set in your domain are allowed to define the names and corresponding addresses for your domains, so any DNS server that doesn't have your host names cached will query your authoritive nameservers for that information. And that's the simplistic description of the domain name system. :Nerd: Edited March 7, 2004 by TCH-MikeJ Quote
mike Posted March 7, 2004 Author Posted March 7, 2004 Thanks. So then, I am just fine with ns1 etc, ns2etc? Quote
MikeJ Posted March 7, 2004 Posted March 7, 2004 (edited) They will need to be defined to what TCH sent you in your welcome message. All virtual hosting accounts use: ns1.totalchoicehosting.com ns2.totalchoicehosting.com If you defined them as above, you are good to go. Those are the name servers that get updated when you add subdomains, make changes, etc... Edited March 7, 2004 by TCH-MikeJ Quote
mike Posted March 7, 2004 Author Posted March 7, 2004 Thanks, Mike. I get it. I wasn't sure if I needed to "name" something or I'd be missing the boat. Rock Sign Quote
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