[KLUG Members] dns register question for all you Jokers

[Bruce Smith]

> Went through and registered a domain with joker.com and 
> when it cam time to put in the DNS servers it asked for 
> host name and IP well all I had was an IP.  so I put in 
> the ns.domainname.com and then the IP for both the 
> primary and secondary servers.  Well I think I am all 
> set up but when I go to look at my settings there is no 
> nameservers listed.  So I went to modify/add the 
> nameservers and it only allows a hostname and not IP.  
> Well I do not have a hostname name yet, just the IP.

You have to "create" the name servers first, which makes 
you put in the name and IP.  Then you add that nameserver
to the domain.

I've never tried it, but you probably can put any name for
the name server when you create it, as long as the IP is
correct.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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