On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > You fail to understand. THE REGISTRARS HAVE NO AUTHORITATIVE NAMESERVERS > FOR THE TLD'S THEY SELL. Matthew - as it happens I DO understand. And that was my point. If you host your own DNS, and the registrar that you happened to register with goes belly-up, then you should be fine as the root nameservers will still have the NS records pointing at your own nameservers. > > A domain, when "sold", is simply a couple (or more) NS records pushed into > the root zone for that TLD. right. [snip] > Both of you seem to be confusing the global domain system with registrars > that offer to run DNS for you (free or charge). Obviously if they are > hosting your zone (foobar.org) and they go down, your DNS will stop working. No, I was not confised about the difference, and distinction between the two. -- 73 Chris Cox N0UK, G4JEC, ex-AB0CN, ex-G8PTC RNARS #1157 EN34jv33 chrisc at Chris.Org Ping Jockey's do it until they HEAR the burn... WWW Home Page: http://WWW.Chris.Org/ http://www.pingjockey.net Cultural observation: Europeans think 100 miles is a long way; Americans think 100 years is a long time! If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list