IWorx-Tim
04-22-2006, 12:02 AM
The long awaited rewrite of my old custom nameserver howto is finally available:
http://www.interworx.com/support/docs/iworx-cp/dns-guide/howto-author-custom-nameservers
This is an almost complete rewrite from the ground up increasing both accuracy and clairity over all previous drafts.
For those who don't know what I am talking about, it explains to anyone with a domain name how to create their own ns1. and ns2.mydomain.com DNS nameservers to avoid using the generic ones provided by your DC or registrar.
This is the second of four parts or original content addressing one of our most common questions: How to set up and manage DNS. Even though it isn't an InterWorx problem per-se, it is still something that I personally and the rest of the Iworx team have fielded questions on too many times to count ;-)
Part 1 which was released a couple weeks ago went through the process of DNS lookup and explained it in in terms the layman can understand.
Part 2 takes the reader through the process of registering and setting up their own custom nameserver.
Part 3 (NO ETA right now) will take the user through the process of troubleshooting a non functional DNS through command line tools such as nslookup and whois, as well as web dns tools such as dnsreport.com and dnsstuff.com
Part 4 (NO ETA) will build on the rest of it and teach the user how to sync the dns between two Iworx servers (or an IWorx server and another server running DJBDNS) for redundancy.
These along with the existing docs explaining how to manage DNS with your InterWorx server are collectively called our DNS Guide.I hope you're happy with what you see and feedback and suggestions are always welcome.
As a side note, we synced the website again so there are various other minor improvements to the faq and doc sections of the site, most notably a "linkified" faq section and a restructured troubleshooting guide, along with various formatting and text improvemnts since the last sync.
One of my primarty reponsibilities is the webside and docs so look for more frequent updates than we have had inthat past :-)
Enjoy :-)
http://www.interworx.com/support/docs/iworx-cp/dns-guide/howto-author-custom-nameservers
This is an almost complete rewrite from the ground up increasing both accuracy and clairity over all previous drafts.
For those who don't know what I am talking about, it explains to anyone with a domain name how to create their own ns1. and ns2.mydomain.com DNS nameservers to avoid using the generic ones provided by your DC or registrar.
This is the second of four parts or original content addressing one of our most common questions: How to set up and manage DNS. Even though it isn't an InterWorx problem per-se, it is still something that I personally and the rest of the Iworx team have fielded questions on too many times to count ;-)
Part 1 which was released a couple weeks ago went through the process of DNS lookup and explained it in in terms the layman can understand.
Part 2 takes the reader through the process of registering and setting up their own custom nameserver.
Part 3 (NO ETA right now) will take the user through the process of troubleshooting a non functional DNS through command line tools such as nslookup and whois, as well as web dns tools such as dnsreport.com and dnsstuff.com
Part 4 (NO ETA) will build on the rest of it and teach the user how to sync the dns between two Iworx servers (or an IWorx server and another server running DJBDNS) for redundancy.
These along with the existing docs explaining how to manage DNS with your InterWorx server are collectively called our DNS Guide.I hope you're happy with what you see and feedback and suggestions are always welcome.
As a side note, we synced the website again so there are various other minor improvements to the faq and doc sections of the site, most notably a "linkified" faq section and a restructured troubleshooting guide, along with various formatting and text improvemnts since the last sync.
One of my primarty reponsibilities is the webside and docs so look for more frequent updates than we have had inthat past :-)
Enjoy :-)