Running Your Own DNS Server
I found many great resources for setting up my own DNS server. Here’s one example: http://www.petri.co.il/install_and_configure_windows_2003_dns_server.htm
Unfortunately, I spent hours trying to search for the most basic and necessary part of the process: “Once it’s setup, how do I point my domain to the nameserver?” Sounds simple, right? You just plugin “ns1.xyz.com” for your domain, “xyz.com.” The problem is, ns1.xyz.com doesn’t exist and you can’t create it without, you guessed it, a nameserver.
Again, this is very basic, but maybe I’ll save someone else hours of trouble. Name servers must be setup with your registrar. This is a separate process from the setup of the domain. I was thinking that I had to setup an A-record to point to a subdomain, “ns1.xyz.com.” Forget that, just think of the name server as a different animal altogether. Many registrars include name server creation as part of their control panel; mine didn’t. Luckily, I found some instructions in a forum that told me that I needed to send my registrar an e-mail to have the nameserver registered.
Twitter turned out to be a great resource in solving this problem. I received a number of suggestions that eventually pointed me in the right direction. Thanks to everyone who helped!
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Thanks for this post. In fact sometimes reading online tutorials can leave you even more confused that you were before read the material.
I recently started follow an article on how to write a CRUD application with Netbeans, the author could not describe in details and I ended up giving up.