Oh so now I have learned something new.

I thought that because I was a Domain owner, I had to do the translation from my public IP to my local DNS name

in as much as networksolutions.com, my domain registrar provider, has already the IP and host name then

I don't need to provide that so let me trim off that external. zone  I'm assuming that I still need to provide service for the 10.0.0.0 internal addresses, but that could just be covered by my /etc/hosts file right?

With this new bit of information, I should be able to run a minimal configuration as you earlier outlined
I was trying to throw in everything plus the kitchen sink.  I'll start ripping the plumbing out of named.conf;
see how little I can get away with.

Once again thanks for your time!!


On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 11:39 PM Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
I'm answering this with a separate response because it goes off in a
different direction.  You can decide which way to go without mixing up
all the information together.

On Sat, 2021-04-10 at 12:03 -0700, Jack Craig wrote:
> I think I understand that the primary name server for domain must be
> in my case this home server that I'm using and that I need to be able
> to resolve my service name to my service public IP based on a
> mechanism that I expected I provide through find
>
> what seems to be happening is that I am not getting external and
> internal resolutions for internal and external look ups
>
> AT&T my ISP has agreed to secondary my DNS server but I'm expecting
> to set up the primary so it is setting up that primary and
> coordinating it with the external IP look up's from the world that I
> am stumbling on at the moment

In very few cases the primary name server for a public DNS record will
be on a home computer.  It'll usually be done where you register your
domain name.  Though you can shift it elsewhere.  You can renew a
domain name and host it with a different company.  You can have a
company host your website, and they can also host your DNS records.

For what it's worth, if they do your mail and website through something
like cpanel, they'll probably want to host your DNS records, too, so
their cpanel software can control any changes the DNS records.

You can run your own slave name server, that follows what the public
one does.  This can be handy, but not essential, to keep an eye out for
anything that goes wrong.

If you want to run dynamic DNS, so you can log into your home computer
from somewhere else on the net without having to know your IP, that's a
different thing, again.

But, if you want to be your DNS server for the whole world, they have
to be able to connect to you.  Traffic has to be able to get through.
 And you will need a fixed IP.

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