Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:24:16 -0800 From: Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net> To: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dns bind question Message-ID: <20020325152416.D3087@rain.macguire.net> In-Reply-To: <20020325182041.A22093@mail.clubplus.net>; from david@skytrackercanada.com on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:20:41PM -0500 References: <20020324001753.A14567@sympatico.ca> <20020324162525.B281@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20020325182041.A22093@mail.clubplus.net>
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* 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
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