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yi.org Help: Using The Admin Section: Namespace Management

The Namespace Management screens allow you to edit all of the settings for each namespace that you own. Different options are available depending on whether the namespace is a Host or a Zone.

At the top of the Namespace Management screen, the name of the namespace you are editing is displayed, followed by the ID number of the namespace in brackets. Below that, the page is divided into three sections:

• General Information
• RR Records belonging to this Namespace
• Create a new RR Record

This section displays general information that affects the entire namespace. When you are done editing settings in the "General Information" area, click on the "Save" button, found at the bottom of this box. Here is a list of all of the fields you may see in the "General Information" area:

• Name: The full name of the namespace.
• Enabled: "Yes" if this namespace will be served in DNS, "No" if not.
• Parent: The name and ID number of the parent to this namespace. Clicking on the name of the parent namespace will open a Host Listing of all of your hosts within the parent namespace.
• Type: Either "Host" for a basic host, or "Zone" for a domain that can have sub-hosts registered beneath it.
• SOA Record: Zones only. The ID# of the Statement Of Authority (SOA) record for this Zone. Clicking on the ID# will open up a SOA Management page with the details for that Statement of Authority.
• URL: Webpage to forward hits to. This only has an effect if you set your namespace's IP address to the IP address of the yi.org URL forwarding server.
• Primary A RR: When an update is received via Client Software or a Update Protocol, this RR will receieve the IP address from that update. You don't usually need to worry about this setting unless you want to have more than one IP address set up on the same hostname. (For load-balancing / etc)
• Domain Registration Information: Zones only. The Owner, Admin, Technical and Billing contacts for your domain can be changed here. You can also edit the details of each contact, or create a new contact, by clicking on the "Edit" and "Create a new Contact" links.

RR Records belonging to this Namespace

This section lists each RR record within the namespace. RR records hold IP Address (A), Mail Exchanger (MX), Host Alias (CNAME), and other information about the namespace. Clicking on the "#", "Name", "Type", or "Data" headings will sort the listing by that column. Clicking on the ID# or name for a RR record will open up a RR Management screen for that individual record.

The Primary A and Wildcard A records will be signified on the list in the "Type" column. Beside the actual type, a "(P)" will be dispalyed in bold.

Create a new RR Record

If you wish to add another RR Record to your namespace, fill in the following information in the "Create a new RR Record" box at the bottom of the Namespace Management screen, then click on "Create":

• Type:

  The type of RR record you wish to create:

  • A - IP (Internet) Address
  • AAAA - IPv6 (Internet 2) Address
  • CNAME - Host Alias
  • MX - Mail Exchanger (SMTP Server) Hostname
  • NS - Name (DNS) Server Hostname
  • TXT - Comment (Text)

• Data:

  The type of information you place in here depends on what type of RR record you are creating;

  • A - An IPv4 address; example: 24.12.0.5
  • AAAA - An IPv6 address; example: 2001:6b0:1:ea:a00:20ff:fe8f:708f
  • CNAME, MX, and NS - A fully-qualified domain name with the trailing dot; example: hostname.yi.org.
  • TXT - A short ascii string with no extra symbols; example: Great Linux Toys

• Aux:

  This field is only relevant if you have multiple RR Records of the same type in one namespace. It specifies the priority for these records. The record with the lowest "Aux" value is considered "most important". For example, if you have two MX records, one with an Aux value of "10" and the other with an Aux value of "20", the one with an Aux of "10" is considered the primary SMTP server, and the one with an Aux of "20", the secondary.

• Wildcard:

  If you set this to "No", you will create a regular host record. If you set this to "Yes", you will create a "Wildcard" record instead.

  Wildcard records supply information when a request is made for any host within the namespace; for instance, if you created a wildcard A RR Record for the namespace hostname.yi.org, anybody that tried to connect to www.hostname.yi.org, bob.hostname.yi.org, or bleah.hostname.yi.org would instead be connected to the IP address in that wildcard record.

Once you create your new RR record by clicking on "Create", you will be forwarded to a RR Management screen where you can view and edit the settings of your newly created record further.

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