From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 17:28: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.cybersurf.net (smtp2.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAC4037B8E1 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:27:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 01031149@3web.net) Received: from webserver ([209.197.155.244]) by smtp2.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id FR6MQ000.N4M; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 18:27:36 -0700 Message-ID: <000301bf8a30$0fa38060$f49bc5d1@webserver> From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: , "Lowell Gilbert" Subject: Re: Installing apache with a dynamic IP address Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 08:46:15 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, March 08, 2000 11:19 AM Lowell Gilbert wrote: >Not quite true. You don't need a static IP address to host a public >web server. All you need is a static domain name. The ISP can change >your IP address all they want, but if they keep a constant domain name >pointing at whatever address you're currently using, you can run your >web server fine from that. This has probably been answered before, and for sure it would be on the web, but while we're on the subject... I know InterNIC has to be paid for an IP address, but what about domain names? If I want to be known as stampeder.ab.ca, I've heard tell that registering this name would be free. Do you know if this is true? Do you know where I could find out? Tia... -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message