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Operating Systems Linux Domain registrars & DNS servers Post 302959579 by cjcox on Wednesday 4th of November 2015 03:33:04 PM
Old 11-04-2015
Think of nameservers as something different (but not necessarily) from your domain.

It's the DNS that holds the zone data for your somedomain.com. To make that official as far as the Internet goes that's why they are asking where your records go... that is what nameservers house the records.

Anymore unless the company is sizable, I chose to use a world wide redundant DNS service (multiple DNS servers with redundance) to house records for a domain (e.g. DNSMadeEasy for example). But as I alluded to earlier you can certainly host your own DNS server(s) (they like for you to have more than one if possible).

When DNS queries are made, ulimately thigns work from the root server down to the tld's etc... and along those paths, your case .com knows who (what DNS servers) stands authoritative for somedomain.com.

With that said, you or anyone else can choose to point to a DNS that "says" it stands authoritative for records for whoever (somedomain.com, mil.gov, etc)... if if that is your DNS that your pointing to you'll get back whatever name to IP (etc) that you have defined there.

Hope that wasn't too confusing.

Maybe another example. The Whitepages is a phone book. I could print my own phone book and change anyone's phone number I want. But this doesn't work at large because chances are people are using the official whitepages and not my hacked up copy.
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Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable(3)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable(3)

NAME
Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable - programmable DNS resolver class for offline emulation of DNS VERSION
0.003 SYNOPSIS
use Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable; use Net::DNS::RR; my $resolver = Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable->new( records => { 'example.com' => [ Net::DNS::RR->new('example.com. NS ns.example.org.'), Net::DNS::RR->new('example.com. A 192.168.0.1') ], 'ns.example.org' => [ Net::DNS::RR->new('ns.example.org. A 192.168.1.1') ] }, resolver_code => sub { my ($domain, $rr_type, $class) = @_; ... return ($result, $aa, @rrs); } ); DESCRIPTION
Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable is a Net::DNS::Resolver descendant class that allows a virtual DNS to be emulated instead of querying the real DNS. A set of static DNS records may be supplied, or arbitrary code may be specified as a means for retrieving DNS records, or even generating them on the fly. Constructor The following constructor is provided: new(%options): returns Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable Creates a new programmed DNS resolver object. %options is a list of key/value pairs representing any of the following options: records A reference to a hash of arrays containing a static set of Net::DNS::RR objects. The hash entries must be indexed by fully qualified domain names (lower-case, without any trailing dots), and the entries themselves must be arrays of the RR objects pertaining to these domain names. For example: records => { 'example.com' => [ Net::DNS::RR->new('example.com. NS ns.example.org.'), Net::DNS::RR->new('example.com. A 192.168.0.1') ], 'www.example.com' => [ Net::DNS::RR->new('www.example.com. A 192.168.0.2') ], 'ns.example.org' => [ Net::DNS::RR->new('ns.example.org. A 192.168.1.1') ] } If this option is specified, the resolver retrieves requested RRs from this data structure. resolver_code A code reference used as a call-back for dynamically retrieving requested RRs. The code must take the following query parameters as arguments: the domain, RR type, and class. It must return a list composed of: the response's RCODE (by name, as returned by Net::DNS::Header->rcode), the "aa" (authoritative answer) flag (boolean, use undef if you don't care), and the Net::DNS::RR answer objects. If an error string is returned instead of a valid RCODE, a Net::DNS::Packet object is not constructed but an error condition for the resolver is signaled instead. For example: resolver_code => sub { my ($domain, $rr_type, $class) = @_; ... return ($result, $aa, @rrs); } If both this and the "records" option are specified, then statically programmed records are used in addition to any that are returned by the configured resolver code. defnames dnsrch domain searchlist debug These Net::DNS::Resolver options are also meaningful with Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable. See Net::DNS::Resolver for their descriptions. Instance methods The following instance methods of Net::DNS::Resolver are also supported by Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable: search: returns Net::DNS::Packet query: returns Net::DNS::Packet send: returns Net::DNS::Packet Performs an offline DNS query, using the statically programmed DNS RRs and/or the configured dynamic resolver code. See the "new" constructor's "records" and "resolver_code" options. See the descriptions of search, query, and send for details about the calling syntax of these methods. print string: returns string searchlist: returns list of string defnames: returns boolean dnsrch: returns boolean debug: returns boolean errorstring: returns string answerfrom: returns string answersize: returns integer See "METHODS" in Net::DNS::Resolver. Currently the following methods of Net::DNS::Resolver are not supported: axfr, axfr_start, axfr_next, nameservers, port, srcport, srcaddr, bgsend, bgread, bgisready, tsig, retrans, retry, recurse, usevc, tcp_timeout, udp_timeout, persistent_tcp, persistent_udp, igntc, dnssec, cdflag, udppacketsize. The effects of using these on Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable objects are undefined. SEE ALSO
Net::DNS::Resolver For availability, support, and license information, see the README file included with Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable. AUTHORS
Julian Mehnle <julian@mehnle.net> perl v5.18.2 2017-10-06 Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable(3)
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