Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 09:07:36 -0400 From: Hornet <hornetmadness@gmail.com> To: Ben Racine <wisher21@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this possible? DHCP / DNS related. Message-ID: <f42935a6050924060721bdebd8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <57aea304050923211666bc8a63@mail.gmail.com> References: <57aea304050923211666bc8a63@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/24/05, Ben Racine <wisher21@gmail.com> wrote: > I have recently set up a web server on my college network. It is > behind DNS and DHCP servers that are out of my control. What I would > like to do is be able to associate a name something like > bsdserve.****.edu . However, I'm fairly new at all this, but from > what I've been able to gather, it seems as though the only way to do > this would be to put a record in the campus DNS which isn't possible. > Any insight? > > Thanks. > > -Ben Racine Being a former collage network admin, I can tell you that it will be next to impossible to get a DNS entry put on the core domain "collage.edu". Unless you have friends in the IT department there. I would suggest NOT saying anything to the IT department about your server, as this is probably a AUP violation, and puts you on the radar. If you can get the DNS entry, I would suggest they delegate the sub-domain to you. In bind, it would require two entries, a A record and NS record. bsdservr IN A your.server.ip freebsdserver IN NS bsdserver.campus.edu. Doing this would allow you to make sub-domains so you could have host1.freebsdserver.campus.edu host2.freebsd.campus.edu etc.. You will need to run your own DNS server to handle the delegation and resolution. -Erik-
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