On Thursday 02 October 2003 07:53 am, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > 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 at your IP, but considering > > the way that DNS works, that's not hard to fix. Just point the > > nameserver IP at your IP, run bind, and put in a couple lines like this: > > > > *.mydomain.com. IN A w.x.y.z > > mydomain.com. IN MX 10 w.x.y.z > > > > I don't see why not having this particular feature makes GoDaddy evil. > > I've been using them for over 3 years now, and I like the low cost, and > > the fact that it's easy to run your own NS at home. It seems evil to me > > not to be able to run my own server. > > Oh, so the complaint was that they don't do DNS for you? Who does? From > what I can tell this is always an additional cost. I wouldn't have it > any other way. > >
Well I didn't intend to start a long thread. Also with Spanish Fork as the isp there is the chance that they could link the doman name to the ip address. I will call them tomorrow. the domain name hasn't populated yet anyway so there is not much that I can do yet. Brian ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
