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On 05/03/2012 01:02 PM, Terry Shepherd wrote: > Wow. > > Thanks for the fast response. This is amazing. > You're welcome. I'm pretty sure on this list, the custom is not to top-post. > No, I did not work for that station. I am in San francisco and was in > elementary school during the 80s. "You kids get off my lawn" :) > > What does fqdn mean and what is the authoritave server? FQDN = Fully Qualified Domain Name ... the complete name from all the way down to the "root" (.) foo.bar.baz.wikipedia.org. is fully qualified myhost is not. I was somewhat sloppy in my answer - a server being "authoritative" in DNS is waaaaaaaaay beyond the scope of this list ... what I really MEANT to say is the "origin server" (I think that's the name -- it has been a *long* time since I've had to quote chapter and verse from the DNS RFCs) It is that server which has the files that define the recordset for a zone. Whoever is responsible for your domain will be able to answer that question for you (hostmaster@yourdomain.com ought to point to that person according to a best-practices doc from some eons ago). As other people have mentioned, you can go w/ a third-party vendor for this, if having a name in their domain is acceptable to your mission. (I had no idea this service was available from other sources) >Thread Previous | Thread Next