From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 24 9:41:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5FAD37B41B for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:41:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id B909516B13 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:41:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from LenConrad.Go2France.com [66.64.14.18] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A4C416180394; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:02:44 +0100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020324113258.03b5eec8@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:41:13 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: dns bind question In-Reply-To: <20020324001753.A14567@sympatico.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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. run your own DNS as primary master NS for your hosting service. >My particular registrar actually wants a "name server" address >to register rather than an IP address. a "registered host" is technically that host's A record, entered into the TLD's nameservers. eg, in the ?.gTLD-servers.net: ns1.skytrackercanada.com. A ip.ad.re.ss Once that host is registered in the .com parents, you can delegate authority to it. The A record is referred to as "glue record". >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? It can be and is, via the domain name service: some.domain.com A ip.ad.re.ss >Why does the name server have to get in between? Because the DNS __IS__ the database the provides the domain-name-to-ip mapping service. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message