setting up a DNS server for Tomcat

[amulyakumar]

Hi all,

I am stuck with an issue related to domain hosting.

Currently i have an application hosted in my own server using a static ip from a service provider. I got a domain name from another domain provider.

Everything went in right way till when i click my url in browser using internet through another system.

I am able to see my application when i use my ip address, where as when i use my domain name its not working.


System Info-

OS- Fedora 11
Application - Java using struts
Server - Tomcat 6

I searched lot of article regarding this and many of them saying to configure DNS server.

As I am new to this every thing is going in toss.

Can any one provide me information or links how to set up my DNS server or is there any other way i can resolve this issue.


thanks a bunch

Amulya

[corysmith]

Your registrar (company you purchase the domain from) should have a way for you to specify an authoritative name server for your domain. The authoritative name server is recognized by all computers in the internet as having the DNS information for your domain specifically.

Your authoritative name server can either be a system that your host, for example DNS running on your own server. Or sometimes registrars like Godaddy will provide you with an authoritative name server.

Contact your registrar and ask them if they will host your authoritative records. If they do, set up a record on their name server to point a www record to your pubic static IP address. If they don't host the DNS for you, you can use BIND on your Fedora server. But you'll need to tell the registrar to set your public static IP address as your domains authoritative server.

[amulyakumar]

Thanks... I contacted my domain registration team and they do have a name server. I just added my IP over there and it worked.

Thanks a lot for all your help