From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 26 12:28:07 2004 Return-Path: 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 CA5E916A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:28:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out014.verizon.net (out014pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C33C43D5A for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:28:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alden.pierre@verizon.net) Received: from verizon.net ([141.153.169.176]) by out014.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040426192806.BOZP5247.out014.verizon.net@verizon.net>; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:28:06 -0500 Message-ID: <408D4E42.8030207@verizon.net> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:00:34 -0400 From: Alden Louis-Pierre User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040408 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran References: <408D43A7.6070207@verizon.net> <408D5D79.5080308@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <408D5D79.5080308@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out014.verizon.net from [141.153.169.176] at Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:28:06 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS question in regards to /etc/resolv.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:28:07 -0000 Bill Moran wrote: > Alden Louis-Pierre wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm in the process of registering with either www.godaddy.com or >> www.dyndns.org for a domain. > > > I've had good results from godaddy, can't say either way about dyndns. > >> Now when it's time to set up my >> /etc/resolv.conf, am I suppose to continue using the nameserver >> that's provided by my ISP or the people I registered my domain >> with will give me there IP address for there nameservers? I'm trying >> to learn how to build a web and email server. As always if someone >> knows a better register besides the 2 i listed please free to inform me. > > > This is not an easy question to answer. > > Will you need to host your own DNS _server_? If so, then the answer is > much more complicated. > > If not, you shouldn't change anything. Your DNS information will > propogate > through your ISP's DNS servers just like it does the rest of the > Internet. > > Actually, even if you _do_ set up your own DNS server, you can still use > your ISP's DNS servers. If you set up your DNS correctly, it will > propogate through your ISP's servers as well. It's just that if you > set up your own DNS server, you'll have the option to use it instead of > your ISP's. > Thank You, I'll continue using my ISP's nameservers. I'm reading Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD by Michael Lucas, TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1-3 by W. Richard Stevens, and the FreeBSD HandBook to help me along the way. I just hope my head does not explode by the time i'm finish reading :-). Thank You Alden Louis-Pierre