From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 9 20:45:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA29593 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 20:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.74]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA29588 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 20:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00234; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 20:45:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 20:45:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Dave William DeMonte cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD create a Domain name? In-Reply-To: <320BD007.7226@frontiernet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Dave William DeMonte wrote: > Hello, I was wondering what FreeBSD does. Does FreeBSD create your own > domain name on the Internet or is this just software to help you run > a server? FreeBSD is a Unix-style operating system, derived from the 4.4BSD-Lite sources. It is used worldwide to drive web sites, ftp sites, irc servers, ISPs, and hundreds of other uses. However, it can't create your own domain name; you have to do that through the InterNIC. It can certainly make use of a name that you've applied for though. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major