For ISPs - How to make ALL Domains Available to Your Users in Just 2 Minutes

For ISPs - How to make ALL Domains Available to Your Users in Just 2 Minutes

Following these steps will enable all of your customers to see all of the alternative top level domains as well as the ususal domains (.COM, .NET, country code TLDs, etc). (Example is for UNIX nameservers).

The Plan: You need to replace the contents of your ROOT.CACHE file with a list of ORSC root servers. On each of your name servers:

1. Go to the directory that contains your root.cache file. You can find out this directory by looking in your named.boot file.

2. Copy that file to a safe place: cp root.cache root.cache.old

3. Using VI or another editor, edit your root.cache file and replace the contents with the following

ASLAN.OPEN-RSC.ORG. 518400 A 199.5.157.128
NS1.VRX.NET. 518400 A 199.166.24.1
NS1.VRX.NET. 518400 A 204.138.71.254
NS2.VRX.NET. 518400 A 205.189.73.102
NS3.VRX.NET. 518400 A 199.166.24.3 
PINE.HIGGS.NET. 518400 A 204.80.125.130
UNICORN.OPEN-RSC.ORG. 518400 A 207.126.103.16
AMBER.ELEKTRON.PL. 518400 A 195.117.6.10
NS1.QUASAR.NET. 518400 A 208.243.146.13 
NS1.BEACHSHORE.NET. 518400 A 216.230.38.85
NS1.DIEBOLD.NET. 518400 A 205.189.73.10
NS7.RAEX.COM. 518400 A 216.196.48.66

. 518400 IN NS NS1.VRX.NET.
. 518400 IN NS NS2.VRX.NET.
. 518400 IN NS NS3.VRX.NET.
. 518400 IN NS PINE.HIGGS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS UNICORN.OPEN-RSC.ORG.
. 518400 IN NS NS1.JERKY.NET.
. 518400 IN NS AMBER.ELEKTRON.PL.
. 518400 IN NS NS1.QUASAR.NET.
. 518400 IN NS ASLAN.OPEN-RSC.ORG.
. 518400 IN NS NS1.DIEBOLD.NET.
. 518400 IN NS NS7.RAEX.COM.
. 518400 IN NS NS1.BEACHSHORE.NET.

4. Restart your name server process.

What this does: When your name server process starts, it will get its list of root servers from this file. Any requests that your users make to your name servers will use the TLD list contained in these root server. These servers contain all of the usual domains (COM/NET, etc) as well as all of the alternative top level domains.