From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 24 14:12:48 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 B436716A41F for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:12:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hornetmadness@gmail.com) Received: from qproxy.gmail.com (qproxy.gmail.com [72.14.204.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A5F43D4C for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:12:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hornetmadness@gmail.com) Received: by qproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id p36so251211qba for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 07:12:46 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DLqed7SVyE/okpqNXlLcQZQ4c56CTOO1NyVPjDxxyZg8qa7Xwka46qidiujeaHoohdxmXpMcJX9AnKrVCKMKw7wa703xkXDmtWSCAkPzy21DzcHlM7hIRm37ugjDM46PNAvr1+sGuxJwBi18HflsJNIJ+9hr1daV/2sGZzNpRbU= Received: by 10.65.103.18 with SMTP id f18mr335869qbm; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 06:07:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.121.19 with HTTP; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 06:07:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 09:07:36 -0400 From: Hornet To: Ben Racine In-Reply-To: <57aea304050923211666bc8a63@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <57aea304050923211666bc8a63@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this possible? DHCP / DNS related. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Hornet List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:12:49 -0000 On 9/24/05, Ben Racine wrote: > I have recently set up a web server on my college network. It is > behind DNS and DHCP servers that are out of my control. What I would > like to do is be able to associate a name something like > bsdserve.****.edu . However, I'm fairly new at all this, but from > what I've been able to gather, it seems as though the only way to do > this would be to put a record in the campus DNS which isn't possible. > Any insight? > > Thanks. > > -Ben Racine Being a former collage network admin, I can tell you that it will be next to impossible to get a DNS entry put on the core domain "collage.edu". Unless you have friends in the IT department there. I would suggest NOT saying anything to the IT department about your server, as this is probably a AUP violation, and puts you on the radar. If you can get the DNS entry, I would suggest they delegate the sub-domain to you. In bind, it would require two entries, a A record and NS record. bsdservr IN A your.server.ip freebsdserver IN NS bsdserver.campus.edu. Doing this would allow you to make sub-domains so you could have host1.freebsdserver.campus.edu host2.freebsd.campus.edu etc.. You will need to run your own DNS server to handle the delegation and resolution. -Erik-