Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:20:41 -0500 From: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dns bind question Message-ID: <20020325182041.A22093@mail.clubplus.net> In-Reply-To: <20020324162525.B281@fishballoon.dyndns.org>; from scott.mitchell@mail.com on Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 04:25:25PM %2B0000 References: <20020324001753.A14567@sympatico.ca> <20020324162525.B281@fishballoon.dyndns.org>
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> 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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