From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 24 17:24:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 074EA37BAA3 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:24:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johnmpurser@home.com) Received: from C37259A ([24.9.57.64]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <20000225012428.LGPD14903.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@C37259A>; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:24:28 -0800 Reply-To: From: "John Purser" To: "'Walter Brameld'" , "'Alfred Perlstein'" Cc: "'Nick Barbarise'" , "'freebsd'" Subject: RE: question/register Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:24:34 -0800 Message-ID: <000101bf7f2f$1376b380$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <00022420101000.00456@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got a static IP address from @home. I'm thinking about registering a domain, paying another service to host it and then use the page there to bounce inquiries to my FreeBSD box. This is pure pipe smoke at this point. I've got a few more O'Reilly books to digest before I start moving on this. John Purser -----Original Message----- From: Walter Brameld [mailto:brameld@twave.net] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 5:08 PM To: johnmpurser@home.com; John Purser; 'Alfred Perlstein' Cc: 'Nick Barbarise'; 'freebsd' Subject: RE: question/register On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, John Purser wrote: > I heard you say that you were using a cable modem as your internet > connection. Up in Vancouver WA @home won't provide DNS for your domain. No, > I don't know why. You might want to be sure your ISP provides the service > (I thought they all did until I ran into @home) before you start counting on > it. > > John Purser > Thanks for the info. I haven't gotten it yet, so don't know what the final outcome will be. If that turns out to be the case, is there no other recourse? -- 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