On Oct 2, 2003, at 10:05, Frank Sorenson wrote:
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:
first, is this even what the person was looking to do?
second, i'm not sure why you would want this?
third, of course. GoDaddy's free service only includes name server directing.
$ 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.
yup.
That's probably who is providing your DSL (or whatever connection you've got):
no, i don't have DSL.
$ 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.
then don't have your ISP do your name server redirecting and DNS/MX control. get the static IP from them and then do the rest yourself/with godaddy.
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
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