From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 13 12:52:32 2002 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 5938B37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:52:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from pooh.ASARian.org (rdu26-76-083.nc.rr.com [66.26.76.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF2FE43EC5 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:52:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org) Received: from localhost (fuzzy@localhost.ASARian.org [127.0.0.1]) by pooh.ASARian.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBDKr4Wk033201; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:53:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from fuzzy@pooh.ASARian.org) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:53:04 -0500 (EST) From: Fuzzy To: Andrew Y Ng Cc: Bsd Neophyte , Subject: Re: hosting more than one website on a cable connection (DHCP)... and using BIND In-Reply-To: <20021213001716.GA24632@AndrewNg.com> Message-ID: X-No-Archive: Yes Organization: ASARian Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Andrew Y Ng wrote: > you can create a dynamic hostname with dyndns.org and update it with > ddclient, and create a CNAME entry for your machine and alias it to the > dyndns hostname at your DNS. (i have home.andrewng.com to point to my machine > behind a cable modem with a dynamic IP address) > > you can just set the DNS to that dynamic hostname at the registrar. > you need one more DNS though, dyndns has a DNS hosting service, but I'm > not sure if that is free... > I thought the records that IN MX and IN NS had to be IN A records? I'm using a cable modem and get a DHCP delivered address. I just treat it as pseudo-static and update my DNS zone to the new number, with a script. I just added IN A records for all the host names I'm using. I also host 5 virtual domains and use one additional zone for them, (since they all have the same setup and all share the same pseudo-static IP). I looked at TZO's website, and says they have to host the DNS, (I guess to do the dynamic DNS updating?), and that one would point an IN CNAME to the tzo.com logical address. But that violates the rule about not pointing IN MXes at IN CNAMEs? a fuzzy, Fuzzy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message