DNS and hosting question

[Keith Morse]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Chong Yu Meng wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I was asked about a certain scenario this afternoon that really got me 
> thinking. I'm not very familiar with the way web hosting providers work, 
> so I'm going to ask my question here. Hopefully someone can help me. 
> Here's the scenario I need a little help on :
> 
> 1. Company XYZ has a website hosted at a 3rd party hosting provider (ABC 
> Hosting Company) in a foreign country, under www.xyzdomain.com.
> 2. Company XYZ has a server it wants to deploy locally, and they want it 
> to be somehost.xyzdomain.com
> 
> This scenario is quite common in my country, actually, because Singapore 
> is an island with a LOT of restrictions, as some of you may know.
> 
> My thinking is that, in order for the local server to be accessible as 
> somehost.xyzdomain.com, there needs to be a DNS entry for this server at 
> the hosting provider, ABC Hosting Company. Am I correct ? If ABC Hosting 

If that DNS server is authoritative for xyzdomain.com then yes.



> Company requires additional payment and I cannot or do not want to pay 
> for an additional DNS entry, how can I get the local server accessible 
> by its fully-qualified hostname? How actually do hosting companies 
> handle this sort of request?

Get the authoritative name server to include somehost.xyzdomain.com in the 
appropriate zone file,  or...  Well just one question first.  Does the 
internet need to know about somehost.xyzdomain.com or just your own 
company?





> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> pascal chong
> 
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