October 1998
Beginner
512 pages
14h 22m
English
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Planning Naming Service
To make your network user-friendly, you need to provide a service to convert hostnames into IP addresses. Domain Name System (DNS), Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), and the host tables, explained in Chapter 3, perform this function. You should plan to use them.
To configure a computer, a network user needs to know the domain name, the system’s hostname, and the hostname and address of at least one name server. The network administrator provides this information.
Obtaining a Domain Name
The first item you need for domain name service is a domain name.[29] You can obtain an official domain name from the InterNIC. Your ISP may be willing to do this for you or to assign you a name within its domain; however, it is likely that you will have to apply for a domain name yourself. You can download the application from ftp://rs.internic.net.
Pre-select a domain name and have your primary domain name server up and running before you attempt to register the domain name. Use whois as described in Chapter 13 to see if the name you want is in use. Double-check with nslookup as described in Chapter 8. When you are reasonably sure the domain name is still available, start your primary name server running. If you don’t want to run your own server, ask your ISP if they offer this service. If they don’t, you must either find a new ISP that does, or run the service yourself.
Having the primary server up and running doesn’t mean that your entire domain must be fully operational, ...
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