From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 24 16:29:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29A4737BCBF for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:29:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craig-burgess@home.net) Received: from home.net ([24.0.178.21]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000225002927.DDGY22732.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@home.net>; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:29:27 -0800 Message-ID: <38B5CD58.2E1A5176@home.net> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:31:20 -0800 From: Craig Burgess X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Walter Brameld Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Nick Barbarise , freebsd Subject: Re: question/register References: <38B5984D.9AB8B63C@wholefoods.com> <20000224121322.O21720@fw.wintelcom.net> <00022419220601.00323@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm not Alfred, but I'd guess that his reply presumed ownership of a valid domain name, registered with the proper authority etc. craig Walter Brameld wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Nick Barbarise [000224 12:10] wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I just placed a fresh copy of apache/freebsd on a blank unit and would > > > like it to host my web page. I am going to get my own domain name, is > > > there anything I need to do to match the domain name with the computer > > > box?? I am new to this so any help is very useful. please reply to this > > > e-mail. > > > > Ask your ISP to setup DNS records with you to point www.yourdomain.com > > to the IP address they assigned you. > > > > -Alfred > > > Alfred, is it as simple as that? I was under the impression you had > to register your domain with someone and pay a yearly fee. I am > interested in the reply as I will be getting cable modem as soon as > the company stops dragging its feet, and will be setting up my own > domain. > > -- > Walter Brameld > > in·tel·lec·tu·al > n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. > Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ... mind like a steel trap: things wander in and get mangled ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message