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Date:      Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:19:12 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        ReachMe@Syne-Post.com (Phil)
Cc:        cjclark@home.com, questions@freeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ftp.mydomain.com/filelist.html ???
Message-ID:  <199903152319.SAA01514@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <36ED8EC9.D2712433@Syne-Post.com> from Phil at "Mar 15, 99 05:50:49 pm"

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Phil wrote,
> Ok, I have seen it suggested a few times that people say its a DNS problem.
> This latest message suggests I need a machine name of 'ftp' so that
> ftp.mydomain.com will come up. Well, I only have one box. It's name is
> 'mnemo'.
> Does this imply that I can't run an ftp server for my site?????
> I don't think that's what was intended.

The name of the machine, 'mnemo' and what services it runs have
nothing to do with each other. Assuming your machine has DNS properly
pointing to it at 'mnemo.yourdomain.com,' then people can point their
Netscape browsers at 'ftp://mnemo.yourdomain.com' and everything will
be just fine. The name of the machine, the URL, is simply a name that
is _supposed_ to make it easier for us humans to remember
addresses. That URL is associated with a IP address by the DNS, and
netscape does not care one iota what the name of the machine is.

Now, if you still want, for asthetic reasons, to have the name
'ftp.yourdomain.com,' you need to have whomever controls your domain
assign 'ftp.yourdomain.com' to your buddy 'mnemo' (i.e. have
'ftp.yourdomain.com' point to your machine's IP address). Otherwise,
how will other people's machines know where to look for
'ftp.yourdomain.com?'

> Let's try from another angle.
> 
> As a newbie what do I have to do to set-up an FTP mirror of a site in .uk??
> I already have permission to do so from the content owner.
> Also he said there is a way to automatically update the mirror site, say twice
> a month, how can I accomplish this aswell???

Have you RTFM?

     http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ21.html

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Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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