Everything is a Freaking DNS problem - inuits.nl http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/taxonomy/term/1319/0 en Apparently there are Borders http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/apparently-there-are-borders <p>And therefore, sometimes you need to register domains in different countries.<br /> So how does one proceed, one takes the zone file of the existing domain e.g. .be and creates a symlink for the different countries to the original zonefile e.g .nl and .eu . Afterall, you want to have te same hosts available in every country and you want to keep the hassle down when you update a host.</p> <p>You tell your registrar, to reg the same domain for the other tld's with the usueal Nameservers , you know . the one that are listed in your original zonefile</p> <p>So your host file might look like this<br /> <div class="geshifilter"><pre class="text geshifilter-text" style="font-family:monospace;"><ol><li style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: normal;"><div style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal"> IN NS ns1</div></li><li style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: normal;"><div style="font-family: monospace; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal"> IN NS ns2</div></li></ol></pre></div></p> <p>Any idea what the effect is ?</p> <p>Exactly your zone file tells the world to use ns1.domain.nl for each and every country you create it. So not ns1.domain.be as you intened.</p> <p>Now some TLD's don't really care, but <a href="http://frank.be/" rel="nofollow">Frank</a> teached me that .nl DOES check this. To technically I had to give myselve a "Freaking DNS" T-Shirt. Apart from that it is just better practise to keep your setup correct anyhow.</p> <p>PS. Obviously same goes for .org .net and .com series.</p> <p>PS2. Yes the title of my blog is Everything is a Freaking DNS problem, doesn't mean I don't make mistakes or that I know all the answers, I just figured it's a big cause of problems :)</p> http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/apparently-there-are-borders#comments dnsproblem inuits.be inuits.eu inuits.nl zonefiles Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:22:55 +0000 Kris Buytaert 952 at http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog