Re: Hosting public dns without domain name

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From: Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:43:08 -0500

In news:6a6a9040.0408310101.32021f0d@posting.google.com,
Daniel Tan <danieltan@time.net.my> wrote their comments
Then Kevin replied below:
> Can i host a public dns server without having subscribe
> to a domain name ? User will have to key in my dns server
> ip in ther machine to act as forwarder. Pls advise. Thanks

No you cannot, in order to have a public name server registered at the
parent servers for the TLD, it must have a second level domain name. 

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