[NTLUG:Discuss] Registrars and DNS

[Chris Cox]

The registered DNS server with the registrar must
be a DNS server.  The entries for your domain
can point to whatever IPs you like and the records
are stored at the authoritative server for your
domain.

Swapan Sarkar wrote:

> I have a basic question related to domain names but
> hope it is not stupid.
> 
> When I register for a domain name, the registry also
> stores the DNS servers and their IP address which will
> resolve the domain. Can it point to a static IP
> address, which does not run a DNS server like
> bind/djbns but resolves using /etc/hosts file and it
> is inside an ISP domain. (ISP = home.com, mydomain =
> domain.org) How will this server resolve the external
> domain names (can it still keep the ISP DNS server for
> resolution) ?
>