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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Yves Arsenault
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 2:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Bind Or Apache?
The service that I purchased the domain with directs the domain to my IP.
So, I should get my ISP to point the domain to my IP?
I'm pretty new at this, we wanted to set up a webserver for our sites.
I'm not sure if this is the best way to learn...
:-)
Yves
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: June 5, 2003 3:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Bind Or Apache?
Yves, have you set it up with your IP to resolve the domain name? and or the service you registered the domain name with must direct the name to your IP. Sorry if this is too basic, but you do have to have the ISP point the IP address to your domain name or the Domain name will not be resolved by the DNS but the IP address will be resolved. HTH Dennis M.
Yes, my understanding is the way my service provider works. They need to know the domain name so that their DNServers can resolve a name request to the IP address. In other words if you type in a browser "http://68.96.13.x:80" it will go to the IP address and ask for port 80 access and you would get it if it were set to allow internet access. But if you have a domain name associated with that IP and the ISP does not know it or have their servers point the name to the IP then the domain name will not resolve if you type in " http://www.somedomain.com/ . This is the way it worked for me. Once I had registered the domain name I had to call my ISP tech back and let them know what the domain name was and the address to associate it with, since I had two addresses. HTH Dennis M.
