From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Aug 2 11:27:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from filer.fr.clara.net (filer.fr.clara.net [212.43.194.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85C5037B405 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:27:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@fr.clara.net) Received: from munster.noc.fr.clara.net (munster.noc.fr.clara.net [212.43.195.20]) by filer.fr.clara.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462D03143; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:24:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:24:29 +0200 (CEST) From: James X-Sender: james@munster.noc.fr.clara.net To: Jason Dodson Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wanting to host a website....have the domain name.....help In-Reply-To: <00e801c11b76$46ae3f40$0400a8c0@jasondod> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The company through who your friend 'bought' the DN from may have a web based DNS admin page for doing what you want...(sometimes they charge extra) this is the kind of thing you need - www IN A ip_of_your_server James On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Jason Dodson wrote: > Alrighty, I recently installed FreeBSD and I am loving it. I have a friend > who bought a domain name a while back and I want to host the website on my > FreeBSD box. Now how do I go about doing this? I have read about and > believe that I understand the DNS but I still would like to know just how I > am supposed to get the NetSolutions domain name that he bought to point to > my server? I know this may seem like a really general question but any time > I write the NetSolutions people they send me a pre-formatted listing of > things to do that looks like someone just cut and pasted it and then sent > that to me......I just need to know what I need to have up and running on my > machine and what I need to do with NetSolutions.......any references, > webpages, or personal replies are welcome! > > > Jason > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message