Hi all,

I'm asking this question primarly on behalf of a friend who does not know how to phrase the question adquately. Also, it is to refresh what I understand on how to setup new DNSes.

Question or more like a scenario goes like this:

Let say I am interested to register a new domain name, abc.com, checked whois and the name is free/not yet used, I would then find a decent registrar and register the new domain name at the registrar, paid the fee and subsequent name lookups gets resolved to the registrar nameservers for this new domain name.

After convincing my bosses/powers-that-be, the company should run it's own website, nameserver etc, i then subscribed to an isp and gets the proper gear/infra in place. I'm assigned a fixed public ip.

Next, i want when abc.com is queried from the internet I want the authorative nameserver to be my nameserver insted of the registrar's nameservers.

At this stage, do i:

a. tell the registrar can they point or delegate (or what is the correct term) the abc.com domain name to my public fixed ip? ( i;ve forwarded/snat/static NAT udp 53 to an internal host running bind-chroot, bind 9.x.x is up and running)


b. or get in touch with the the ISP i want the fixed ip i lease/rent to be registered in their name server as my.dns.com and then go to the registrar and tell them to point/delegate (or whatever the correct term is) my server fqdn my.dns.com?

Then do what ever necessary to hosts whatever services my bosses wants me to (ftp, email etc etc)



Looking forwards to knowledagble replies and/or definitive links.