From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 26 12:59:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5EB16A4D0 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:59:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mynah.mail.pas.earthlink.net (mynah.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C3C43D1F for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:59:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 20-74.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.20.74] helo=[192.168.63.10]) by mynah.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.36 #4) id 1BICG5-0005cU-00; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:59:17 -0700 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:59:18 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <408D43A7.6070207@verizon.net> <20040426192438.GA2287@lappy> <486179499.20040426143755@mygirlfriday.info> In-Reply-To: <486179499.20040426143755@mygirlfriday.info> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404261459.18328.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4bf04fa8344469d4788caa851fedbb2909350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: Gary Subject: Re: DNS question in regards to /etc/resolv.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:59:17 -0000 On Monday 26 April 2004 02:37 pm, Gary wrote: > Hi there Brandon, > > I lost Bill's original message, so if you don't mind, I will tag this > response on to yours > > Monday, April 26, 2004, 2:24:38 PM, you wrote: > >> Will you need to host your own DNS _server_? If so, then the > >> answer is much more complicated. > > B> if he's using dynamic dns, i'm assuming he has a dynamic IP. In > which B> case it would be a bit difficult to have his own dns. > > B> I suppose he _could_ have dnsdns/godaddy point to his dns server, > and B> then have that resolve his ip... but that's kind of pointless. > > There is one other very important piece of info needed, that Bill > needs to get, before all of this. He has to make sure Verizon does > not block ports 25, 80, and 53, so he can use a mail/web/DNS server > to begin with. For cases where the ISP blocks port 80, dyndns has a service that will forward port 80 requests to the port of the subscriber's choice. That way the subscriber can use a different port without being lost to the rest of the world. For my limited, personal web uses, I choose to serve my pages via SSL. Port 80 is blocked by my firewall. Andrew Gould