Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 00:17:53 -0500 From: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: dns bind question Message-ID: <20020324001753.A14567@sympatico.ca>
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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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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