Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:36:19 -0800 (PST) From: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hosting more than one website on a cable connection (DHCP)... and using BIND Message-ID: <20021212123534.D80689-100000@entwistle.sonicboom.org> In-Reply-To: <20021212072707.58724.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021212072707.58724.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com>
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the fact that your ip will occasionally change complicates the problem, you'll need a solution targeted at that, tzo.com is one example. Brian On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > Alright, this is what I want to do... > > I have a cable connection that uses DHCP, giving me a lease for about 2 > minutes. Usually the address stays the same, but at times it does change. > > > I want to host two domain names to start. I also would like to have the > possiblity to host more. I will have only one changing IP. > > I also want to have subdomains. I want each system at home to have a > subdomain based on either one of the two domain's I'll have established. > So if I have blah.com as my primary domain, I want to be able to ssh to > yadda.blah.com from any other location. If I want to ssh to yawn.blah.com > from any other location, it should be able to connect to that system, > eventhough they are both sharing 1 ip address through Natting. > > I've been told I can use these free third party domain name servers. I've > also been told that you need to keep a record with at least 2 domain name > servers when hosting a domain name. While, I can do this, I'd like to > host at least one DNS at home. > > Now, I'm completely confused if this can be done and if it can, then how > to do it. > > The FreeBSD handbook seems pretty straight-forward in setting up BIND. > However, I don't know how to distinguish more than one domain name when > using only one IP address. Also, is it possible for the home DNS and the > third party DNS's to work in tandem? > > Does any of this make sense? > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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