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From: wjjr@alisa.org (John J. Rushford)
Subject: Domain Names
Organization: My place on the Front Range.
Message-ID: <Du8zt3.4qz@alisa.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 23:27:03 GMT
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I've got some basic questions about domain names and could not find anything
on the subject in the FreeBSD Handbook. I thought I'd post here for some
answers and advice. Would appreciate any info on the subject.
I've got a FreeBSD 2.1 machine that I use to access the internet via ppp and
I've registered a domain name with the NIC, alisa.org. On my machine, I've
merely set the hostname to 'alisa.org' and have no domain name set. Everything,
mail, telnet, rlogin, etc work fine. Now, I want to set up a web page on the
machine, www.alisa.org. Here is my question:
1) Do I have to run 'named', DNS, so that hosts on the internet can
resolve to www.alisa.org? If so, would I have to arrange for some
kind of DNS record in my ISP's database, beyond what they have already
for alisa.org? I've just begun to read the DNS and BIND O'Reilly book.
2) I'm interested in providing web pages to customers on the machine and
some want their on domainname. Is it possible to have multiple domain
names on the same machine? If so, How does one set this up?
thanks for your help
John Rushford
wjjr@alisa.org