On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 19:59, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > What's a control panel? It is the web-based interface for the domain name registrar, in which one configures the name servers for the domain name that he bought from them. > Bind is going to want a zone file for each > domain where it is the primary nameserver and an A record for each host > in that domain. Yes. > You may have some GUI tool to manage them. Oh, no, I'm trying to learn the _right_ way! That's why I'm here! > But any > instance of bind can be primary for any number of domains. The > association with the IP address(es) that will receive the queries > happens when you register the domain into the public dns system and you > can register the same server(s) as primary for many domains. > Yes, but I'd rather have different name servers for exampleA.com and exampleB.com. The two domain names are for competing websites, there should be no hint that they are associated. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com