Search Again: Re: Multiple IPs From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 Time: 2:47:00 am At 5:25 PM +0100 3/20/2000, Johan Solve wrote: >It seems that some domain registration companies (specifically >http://www.domaininfo.com) doesn't allow different names on the same >DNS machine (or rather DNS IP number). We want to do this because we >are a couple of companies sharing one DNS and each of us wants to use >our own name of the same DNS for obvious reasons. We also want to use >our own domain names for our external secondary instead of the >external ISP's DNS name. > >We tried to get around this by adding secondary IP addresses to the >server, hoping that QDNS would listen and respond to all IP numbers >on the machine, but that doesn't seem to work. > >- Is there a logical reason to why they won't allow us to use than >one name for the same DNS IP number? Their support mail haven't >responded to our questions yet. It's an arbitrary policy, apparently set by ICANN, since it seems to be common to all registrars. (Anyone know differently?) >- Any other ideas on how to get around this limitation, besides >waiting for QDNS 3 or adding another physical server? Nope. You might think port mapping (with a NAT server) would be the answer, but in fact this causes problems where the reply from your server comes from a different address than where the query was sent. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: Multiple IPs by Johan Solve on Mar 20, 2000 at 4:25:00 pm Re: Multiple IPs by Men & Mice Support on Mar 21, 2000 at 2:47:00 am Re: Multiple IPs by clyde on Mar 21, 2000 at 4:42:00 am Re: Multiple IPs by David M. Cole on Mar 21, 2000 at 8:04:00 pm