I know this is a stupid question, but I am wondering something about setting up your DNS Servers. Lets say you are the reseller and your domain is joeshosting.com. And you want to host the DNS for your website and all of your hosting customer's websites. Here's what I am wondering:
If your server is going to be resolving the names ns1.joeshosting.com and ns2.joeshosting.com to ip addresses, how will your domain name registrar be able to resolve those names. Because the domain registrars DNS control panel will only let you enter the names of the DNS servers and not the IP addresses. So, the registrar tries to resolve the name ns1.joeshosting.com, but ns1.joeshosting.com is the server that needs to be doing the resolving because it is hosting the DNS for the joeshosting.com domain so it will never get resolved. How can a DNS server resolve itself? Do you see where the Catch 22 is that I'm wondering about? Please explain this issue. Keep in mind that I am a COMPLETE DNS newbie. I will be setting up a hosting server soon with DA on it and this question has been bothering me.
Louie
If your server is going to be resolving the names ns1.joeshosting.com and ns2.joeshosting.com to ip addresses, how will your domain name registrar be able to resolve those names. Because the domain registrars DNS control panel will only let you enter the names of the DNS servers and not the IP addresses. So, the registrar tries to resolve the name ns1.joeshosting.com, but ns1.joeshosting.com is the server that needs to be doing the resolving because it is hosting the DNS for the joeshosting.com domain so it will never get resolved. How can a DNS server resolve itself? Do you see where the Catch 22 is that I'm wondering about? Please explain this issue. Keep in mind that I am a COMPLETE DNS newbie. I will be setting up a hosting server soon with DA on it and this question has been bothering me.
Louie