From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 26 12:33:50 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 E93C616A4DC for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:33:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out007.verizon.net (out007pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 768C143D5E for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:33:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alden.pierre@verizon.net) Received: from verizon.net ([141.153.169.176]) by out007.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040426193349.STEG28276.out007.verizon.net@verizon.net>; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:33:49 -0500 Message-ID: <408D4F99.2070605@verizon.net> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:06:17 -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: Brandon Niemczyk References: <408D43A7.6070207@verizon.net> <408D5D79.5080308@potentialtech.com> <20040426192438.GA2287@lappy> In-Reply-To: <20040426192438.GA2287@lappy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out007.verizon.net from [141.153.169.176] at Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:33:49 -0500 cc: Bill Moran 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 19:33:51 -0000 Brandon Niemczyk wrote: >On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 03:05:29PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > >>I've had good results from godaddy, can't say either way about dyndns. >> >> > >dyndns has worked great here, i'm sure godaddy is similar. > > > >>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 he's using dynamic dns, i'm assuming he has a dynamic IP. In which >case it would be a bit difficult to have his own dns. > >I suppose he _could_ have dnsdns/godaddy point to his dns server, and >then have that resolve his ip... but that's kind of pointless. > >You know, that whole circular loop thing... > > > Yes, I have a dynamic IP, it changes every 2 months if i'm not mistaken if that helps matters any. Thank You Alden Louis-Pierre