On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Wade Preston Shearer said: > On Oct 1, 2003, at 22:55, Frank Sorenson wrote: > > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Steve Dibb said: > >> Ack! GoDaddy is evil. There's no way to point it to your IP. :( > >> > >> That's why I use Stargate. www.stargate.com. The service is sucky, > >> but > >> hey, it's part of the deal to point the domain to any IP. > > > > No, I guess they don't point the whole domain > > what do you mean, "don't point the whole domain at your IP." > > i have several domains registered through godaddy and have pointed them > to whatever IP is want.
The way that DNS works, names are resolved into IP addresses. What I mean by "point the whole domain at your IP" is that <anything>.yourdomain.com resolves to the same IP address. This is obviously not the case for you because: $ host www.anavidesign.com www.anavidesign.com has address 63.172.126.146 $ host asdjlf.anavidesign.com Host asdjlf.anavidesign.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) If the entire domain was pointed to your IP, it would have resolved. Try it with mine, sorensonfamily.com for an example of this: $ host ajsdlkfjsldajfasdjfjadsljfdaslkjflksadjf.sorensonfamily.com ajsdlkfjsldajfasdjfjadsljfdaslkjflksadjf.sorensonfamily.com is an alias for sorensonfamily.com. sorensonfamily.com has address 216.190.206.130 You _KNOW_ I didn't enter ajsdlkfjsldajfasdjfjadsljfdaslkjflksadjf into my nameserver config file. Furthermore, GoDaddy isn't providing your DNS, webpipe.net is. That's probably who is providing your DSL (or whatever connection you've got): $ host -t ns anavidesign.com anavidesign.com name server ns2.webpipe.net. anavidesign.com name server ns1.webpipe.net. GoDaddy will do it, but it will probably cost you extra. ISP's will often provide this service to you if you are already paying for a static IP. A static IP isn't really very useful if the only domain name you get is something like jobob.dsl-customer.webpipe.net, now is it. I enjoy my ability to point names at whatever IP I choose. I'm much happier to run my own nameserver, and not leave it up to someone else. Frank --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK CSR Computer Science Department Brigham Young University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
