On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > At Sunday 05:03 PM 4/11/99 , dyer wrote: > >Lev Lvovsky wrote: > > > > > >> my ADSL provider is mminternet.com, and my address is > >> silver168.mminternet.com (the IP is listed above). > > > >You've answered your own question here.... mminternet.com _is_ the domain, > >silver168 > >is only a machine on the domain. You don't register each machine. > > hrm, maybe there's still something that i'm missing...let's say I want to > register www.linuxnewbie.com (just an example), and have it point to my > machine (silver168). The ADSL provider provides me with a static IP, so I > figured this'd be possible (plus a friend of mine with the same setup did > it)...
A CNAME record would handle this. I don't think more than one A record is permissible. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen