From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 15:24:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rain.macguire.net (sense-sea-MegaSub-1-125.oz.net [216.39.144.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C4C037B404 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:24:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from roo@localhost) by rain.macguire.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2PNOGx03896; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:24:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roo) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:24:16 -0800 From: Benjamin Krueger To: David Banning Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dns bind question Message-ID: <20020325152416.D3087@rain.macguire.net> References: <20020324001753.A14567@sympatico.ca> <20020324162525.B281@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20020325182041.A22093@mail.clubplus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020325182041.A22093@mail.clubplus.net>; from david@skytrackercanada.com on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:20:41PM -0500 X-PGP-Key: http://www.macguire.net/benjamin/public_key.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David Banning (david@skytrackercanada.com) [020325 15:20]: > > That mapping from your domain --> your IP address needs to be stored > > *somewhere*. That's what the nameservers are for... > > > > Your machine can certainly be one of the nameservers for your domain, if > > that's what you want. > How does the central resistry know where my nameserver is? > > So there is this central registry, which if I understand correctly knows > only the name server for a particular domain. But how does the > central registry know what the IP address is of that name server? > And if it gets the name server IP address from another name server then > where does it get -that- name servers IP address? A quick search of google gives a number of sites with decent descriptions of how DNS works as a whole process. http://www.google.com/search?q=how+dns+works http://www.stamey.nu/DNS/DNSHowItWorks.asp http://www.howstuffworks.com/dns.htm http://www.zoneedit.com/doc/dns-basics.html -- Benjamin Krueger "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Send mail w/ subject 'send public key' or query for (0x251A4B18) Fingerprint = A642 F299 C1C1 C828 F186 A851 CFF0 7711 251A 4B18 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message