Library items tagged: primary nameserver

To register your domain name under ac.uk or gov.uk, if this has not already been done, or to change delegation details.

The service is intended to provide a basic primary nameserver service to support e-mail and web use by smaller or less experienced Janet customer organisations. Organisations capable of providing their own primary nameserver should do so rather than relying on the Janet Primary Nameserver Service. For Janet customer organisations that have been allocated a DNS domain by the relevant domain registrar, the service can provide primary nameservers that will respond to queries for a small number of resource records in their domain.

Please note that applications are made on behalf of an organisation and can only be accepted from appropriately authorised people. They should be addressed to Janet Service Desk at: service@ja.net They should have the Subject: Janet Primary Nameserver Service application for (name of organisation)

Some organisations may not wish to delegate their entire domain to the Janet Primary DNS service, but still want to benefit from using the automatic failover feature and/or be able to redirect selected records in the event that their primary domain becomes unavailable. One option that could allow you to achieve this is to delegate a subdomain to the Janet Primary DNS service, and populate that with the address records that need to fail over or be manually managed in the event the primary DNS server fails.