From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 24 8:31:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D8C37B42F for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 08:31:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from Alex ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GTHKK302.DXU; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:31:15 +0100 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:31:10 +0100 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <11416158544.20020324173110@dds.nl> To: David Banning Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dns bind question In-Reply-To: <20020324014754.A14999@d.tracker> References: <20020324014754.A14999@d.tracker> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hello David, Sunday, March 24, 2002, 7:47:54 AM, you wrote: DB> I am attempting to host out of my home. I have now a static address DB> and I can access my site via the ip address. My problem comes in DB> when I want to direct my domain name to my ip address. A domain can not be mapped to a ip address. A hostname + domainname points to a ip adress. DB> My particular registrar actually wants a "name server" address DB> to register rather than an IP address. I understand that the name server DB> keeps track of my IP address. I would like to use my one box to be all DB> of; DB> name server: ns1.skytrackercanada.com DB> host for : www.skytrackercanada.com DB> virtual host for: www.someoneelse.com DB> Can I do this? You have let the nameserver of someoneelse.com to translate that ip to your address. Or have www to forward the request to you. DB> I just don't understand why this DB> is a two step process; Why can't my domain name just be mapped DB> _directly_ to my IP address? Why does the name server have to DB> get in between? Your domain skytrackercanada.com can have multiple subdomains and hosts. This would be imposible without a nameserver. -- Best regards, Alex mailto:freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message