From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 10 11: 0:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marlo.eagle.ca (marlo.eagle.ca [209.167.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF87937B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 11:00:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freymann@eagle.ca) Received: from phantom (staff.eagle.ca [209.167.16.15]) by marlo.eagle.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f4AHvBJ77488; Thu, 10 May 2001 13:57:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freymann@eagle.ca) Message-ID: <007d01c0d97b$12108050$0f01a8c0@phantom> Reply-To: "Gerald T. Freymann" From: "Gerald T. Freymann" To: "Lee Mark Mercado" Cc: References: Subject: Re: DNS Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:00:17 -0400 Organization: eagle.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I just registered my own ~.com domain name. > how do I make my freeBSD box to be the HOST for my ~.com domain ? 1) Well, you need a real, world routable IP number or subnet to attach to your domain... 2) And you need to set up your DNS to be authoritative for your domain. 3) You'll need to update your domain record's information at the registrar you used once you have this going, so they know the IP numbers of your primary and secondary DNS. How about starting by telling us how this FreeBSD box will be connected to the rest of the world? -gf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message