On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Wade Preston Shearer said: > first, is this even what the person was looking to do?
The original poster wanted to know how to point the domain he just registered at his static IP. GoDaddy was suggested, then criticised for not setting up DNS. I then provided a solution (running one's own nameserver), along with the two lines needed to set up global name resolution for all pages inside. > second, i'm not sure why you would want this? Um. . . Well, let me think. Why would someone want to have more than one name for their server. I wonder if this sort of behavior could be used to present different web pages depending on how it's accessed... Wouldn't it be nice if there was a way that clueless family could accidentally type in ww.mydomain.com and still get my web page. What if I wanted to be able to log in through ssh as mydomain.com without having to type in www.mydomain.com. try comparing www.sorensonfamily.com, why-would-anyone-use-a-long-name-like-this.sorensonfamily.com, and frank.sorensonfamily.com They've all got the same IP, but www and why-... produce a different web page than frank.sorensonfamily.com does. > third, of course. GoDaddy's free service only includes name server > directing. Right. That's what I said. That's what a registrar does. They point a domain at name servers. > yup. > > That's > > probably who is providing your DSL (or whatever connection you've got): > > no, i don't have DSL. So you've got a web hosting setup? In that case, it's not unresonable to expect someone to provide NS for hosting customers. I'd actually expect that to be the case. You didn't point GoDaddy at your IP. You pointed GoDaddy at webpipe.net's nameserver IP's. They point your domain at the correct IP. It is common, however, for someone with a static IP to want to host their custom domain on that IP. To do that, someone needs to run a nameserver, and point the domain at the right IP. > 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. Um. Isn't that what I just said? 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
