From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 22 04:16:11 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 DA92F16A4D2 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 04:16:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8750243D1F for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 04:16:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE46560E2; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:16:10 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26096-01; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:16:08 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A1460CD; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:16:08 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41C8F51D.9080604@makeworld.com> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:16:29 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041218) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Knobbe References: <20041222035615.GA10180@gamerasmog.com> <1103688155.7511.11.camel@server1> <1103688595.7511.17.camel@server1> In-Reply-To: <1103688595.7511.17.camel@server1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.0 (20041102) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: RL cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running own servers 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: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 04:16:12 -0000 Frank Knobbe wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 23:04 -0500, RL wrote: > >>So I guess my only option *if* I wanted to do this was to buy a >>business class DSL service that offers a static IP? > > > Or find someone with public name servers that is willing to pull zones > from your name server. Your domains then reference those 3rd party name > servers, but not your own. But since those 3rd party name servers pull > zones from your box, you are still in control of your zones as far as > configuration of zone information is concerned. > > Regards, > Frank I can't see how that will work. If an IP block say belongs to Verizon, THEY are authoritive. You just can't "steal" stuff and have it resolve both ways. I dunno - maybe my understanding of DNS is wrong - but it just can't and dont work that way if you want a responce from some domain 1/2 way around the world. -- Best regards, Chris It's tough to get reallocated when you're the one who's redundant.