From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 15:20:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.clubplus.net (ns1.clubplus.net [216.191.22.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B1E437B417 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:20:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from d.tracker (cust29.209.188.66.dsl.accessv.com [209.188.66.29]) by www.clubplus.net (8.11.4/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g2PNKQ323140 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:20:26 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by d.tracker (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g2PNKfS22174 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:20:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:20:41 -0500 From: David Banning To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dns bind question Message-ID: <20020325182041.A22093@mail.clubplus.net> References: <20020324001753.A14567@sympatico.ca> <20020324162525.B281@fishballoon.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020324162525.B281@fishballoon.dyndns.org>; from scott.mitchell@mail.com on Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 04:25:25PM +0000 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 > That mapping from your domain --> your IP address needs to be stored > *somewhere*. That's what the nameservers are for... > > Your machine can certainly be one of the nameservers for your domain, if > that's what you want. How does the central resistry know where my nameserver is? So there is this central registry, which if I understand correctly knows only the name server for a particular domain. But how does the central registry know what the IP address is of that name server? And if it gets the name server IP address from another name server then where does it get -that- name servers IP address? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message