name server setup with two servers

[computerlady911]

I have two servers. The first one will be SERVERA.COM and the second one will be SERVERB.COM Both running DA.

Question 1: How do I set them up to be my primary and secondary name servers. They will have different domain names.

Should I register a domain name like MYCOMPANY.COM and name one server NS1.MYCOMPANY.COM and the other NS2.MYCOMPANY.COM? If I do that, then I guess I would add a host name for each machine for the DA. Like DA1.MYCOMPANY.COM and DA2.MYCOMPANY.COM. Than I add the users and websites. but none of the websites can be WWW.MYCOMPANY.COM, right?

 

[nobaloney]

How you name your nameservers is entirely up to you. By convention most of us use ns1, ns2, etc., but you can name them anything you want.

However you shouldn't name them just something like example.com, as that's a domain. www.example.com is a service at a domain; hostname.example.com is a host at a domain, and www.hostname.example.com is a service running on a host named hostname.

Your server's hostname should be something.example.com, and you can certainly have a domain name www.example.com on your server. The DA requirement, sometimes misunderstood, is that you can't have a hostname example.com, but most have hostname.example.com. And that once you have a hostname hostname.example.com you can't have a site named hostname.example.com.

Jeff