Subject: Re: Re: Domain name?
From: Zeke Runyon (zrunyon@mac.com)
Date: Sun Dec 16 2001 - 17:56:24 MST
On Sunday, December 16, 2001, at 07:47 PM, John Nelson wrote:
> You will first need to register a domain name and then on the
> registration service point that domain to a DNS server. Now typically
> those cable-modem services do NOT let you run a server on your home
> machine because that would require a static IP address and they don't
> allocate static IP's to home users. You're probably hooked up to them
> with a DHCP dynamic IP address.
>
> That means you need a hosting service with a static IP and presence on
> the net to hold your domain name and provide DNS services for it. But
> even so, your home machine won't be doing any of this... it's just a
> client. Even if you did run DNS on your home machine, nobody would
> recognize you because your IP is static.
>
> Now the good news is that you CAN run FTP, TELNET and other CLIENTS on
> that machine, but that's not what you want. You can run POP3 clients
> to collect mail from a presence provider but of course.... that's not
> what you want. :-)
>
> I'm in the same position. My ISP (as opposed to IPP) gives me a
> dynamic IP but it's dynamic so I have no chance of running servers, and
> the cable-modem ISPs typically restrict you from running servers anyway
> because it sucks up too much bandwidth. So I use a presence provider
> (IPP) to host my web pages, provide email and store extra files
> (http://www.lexonia.net). Lexonia is very inexpensive ($3.95 per
> month) and provides all the basic stuff including web hosting, POP mail
> and domain name registration.
>
> If you get any feedback that solves this issue drop me a line ok?
Even though I am using DHCP, I've had the same IP address for several
months.
So to have a domain name, I have to register with a domain registry
service and pay $35 a year to have it? I can't just run some magic
program in linux to get one for free?
How about dhs.org. They provide free domains (like mymachine.dhs.org). I
have a domain there. Can I enter their name server(s) information into
some configuration thing in linux so that my machine recognizes that it
is mymachine.dhs.org? /etc/hosts?
Some of this seems essential for running some daemons?!
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