From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 24 16:22:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBA1A37BD1D for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:22:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.50] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id wa770766 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:21:11 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA00389; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:22:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: Alfred Perlstein , Nick Barbarise Subject: Re: question/register Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:20:26 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd References: <38B5984D.9AB8B63C@wholefoods.com> <20000224121322.O21720@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000224121322.O21720@fw.wintelcom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00022419220601.00323@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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