Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 16:12:38 -0700 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Sandip Srivastava <ssriva1@alumni.umbc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need Networking Help Message-ID: <200003192312.e2JNCci38961@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 2000 22:11:18 GMT." <Pine.SGI.3.96.1000319215056.27944A-100000@alumni.umbc.edu>
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Sandip Srivastava writes: +--------------- | I have a stand-alone system that connects only occasionally to the | internet via a dial-up ppp connection. The ISP that I connect to | dynamically assigns my system an IP address and a FQDN. | | There are two things I would like done. I don't know if they are possible | with the way things currently are. First I would like to run a nameserver | on my system. The second I would like is for people to be able to access | my system by a FQDN instead of an IP address. I have called my system the | following: | | atlantic.srivastava.com | | If they can't access my system by the above name, is it possible for my | system to take the name the ISP assigns me while I'm connected to the | internet? | | Any help would be greatly appreciated. | | -Sandip +--------------- A few things need to be clear first. It appears that the domain SRIVASTAVA.COM is regestered to someone called NIRAJ SRIVASTAVA. If that is not you then you'll have to make arangements with them to list your addresses. Second it is usually necessary to have a static IP address to host inbound connections to your services. If your ISP wont give you a static address then you need to find one that will. Finaly it is not realy necessary to host services for your domain on your computer. Your ISP can provide much of this service for you. I'd talk to them about various hosting services if you are not interested in bring up this stuff your self. As to running a name server on your system. It is posible to bring one up but there are some administrative details that have to be completed before your server can be part of the global DNS. Look at http://www.internic.net/faq.html and http://www.isc.org/misc/dns-paper-originit.pdf chris __ Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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