Subdomain and public server

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Daniel Tan

Currently i have a subdomain that is under another parent domain. I
enter the information into my local dns server to make it a public
server but from outside my network it can't be found . Is it possible
to make my name server public using a subdomain ? Pls advise. Thanks

Rgds
Daniel
 
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Ace Fekay [MVP]

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Daniel Tan said:
Currently i have a subdomain that is under another parent domain. I
enter the information into my local dns server to make it a public
server but from outside my network it can't be found . Is it possible
to make my name server public using a subdomain ? Pls advise. Thanks

Rgds
Daniel

I am assuming you are connecting to a website, correct?
If so, you would connect to it as:
http://subdomain.domain.com

Then of course, you need a hostheader in the website properties to match
that.

Can you ping subdomain.domain.com ?

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Daniel Tan

Ace, still not able to ping . Can ping the parent domain but local
host name still won't. Have setup my dns server using subdomain infor.

Rgds
Daniel
 
D

Daniel Tan

Ace, sorry for some confusion. I can ping subdomain.domain.com but i
want my dns server to host it. So i set up a host name ,
ns.subdomain.domain.com in my dns. But my host name can't be found.

Rgds
Daniel
 
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Ace Fekay [MVP]

In
Daniel Tan said:
Ace, sorry for some confusion. I can ping subdomain.domain.com but i
want my dns server to host it. So i set up a host name ,
ns.subdomain.domain.com in my dns. But my host name can't be found.

Rgds
Daniel

A subdomain name can only be accessed publicly based on the parent domain.
If the parent domain is domain.com, and the subdomain is child.domain.com,
then to "find" the child.domain.com zone, it needs to know who is
authorative (the registered SOA) of the domain.com zone. If you want your
server to host the subdomain called "child" under domain.com on the public
network, you must get it delegated from the owners of 'domain.com' to your
DNS server. Who owns the 'domain.com' zone on the Internet? You have to ask
them to delegate it to you.

Ace
 

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