[afnog] Domain registration and web hosting

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:09:53AM -0700,
 Noa of Ark <ncmaina2001 at yahoo.com> wrote 
 a message of 133 lines which said:

> So basically what i want to know,is how i can host a domain using
> the two DNS server. And also the about the zone files,  how would i
> point like their mail,web or say their domain towards their ip
> addresses. 

Sorry to insist but these are really basic questions about DNS and
TCP/IP network administration. It would be more sensible to spend some
time learning before actually serving real customers.

This being said, let's assume that your company has the domain
provider.example, the Customer's domain is customer.example, that his
email server is at 192.0.2.1 and that his Web server is at
2001:DB8:42:1:1, the zone file for customer.example would look like:

@                       IN      SOA     ns1.provider.example.  hostmaster.provider.example. (
                                        2007092601
                                        21600   
                                        3600    
                                        3600000 
                                        86400 )
; Two NS records, your two name servers
                        IN      NS      ns1.provider.example.
                        IN      NS      ns2.provider.example.

; Email. Mail server is at customer's premises
                        IN      MX      100  mail
mail                    IN      A       192.0.2.1

; Web server at customer's premises
www                     IN     AAAA      2001:DB8:42:1:1

Obviously, any network professionnal worth of the name would TEST the
domain after the installation. (I use Zonecheck,
http://www.zonecheck.fr/)

> editing the resolve.conf file. 

/etc/resolv.conf is for DNS *clients*. As the administrator of the DNS
*server*, you have nothing to do.

> Do i need to add a zone in the resolve.conf file for each domain to
> be able to host them 

No. See above.