From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 24 7: 1:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web12802.mail.yahoo.com (web12802.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C858A37B417 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 07:01:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020324150125.59248.qmail@web12802.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [209.188.66.29] by web12802.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 07:01:25 PST Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 07:01:25 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Banning Subject: dns and bind question To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am attempting to host out of my home. I have now a static address and I can access my site via the ip address. My problem comes in when I want to direct my domain name to my ip address. My particular registrar actually wants a "name server" address to register rather than an IP address. I understand that the name server keeps track of my IP address. I would like to use my one box to be all of; name server: ns1.skytrackercanada.com host for : www.skytrackercanada.com virtual host for: www.someoneelse.com I just don't understand why this is a two step process; Why can't my domain name just be mapped _directly_ to my IP address? Why does the name server have to get in between? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message