Subject: Re: Domain name?
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Sun Dec 16 2001 - 18:28:29 MST
Even if your IP address hasn't changed in months, it might. Sometimes
they refresh the tables that hold those tables and your IP number
suddenly changes. Even if this IP address (which you want to be the
DNS SERVER) never changes, that IP address has to registered with the
domain registration organization (in your case dhs.org) as your primary
DNS server AND you need a secondary DNS server which is geographically
separate from the primary DNS (but this is not enforced).
So what happens when your dynamic IP address changes? Your connectivity
to the net is suddenly terminated because the DNS IP address registered
with dhs.org is no longer valid. You will need to submit a modification
request to them to change the DNS server IP and this usually takes some
time.
Now www.dhs.org looks interesting, but since they rely on donations its
hard to say how long they'll be around. The IPP that I mentioned
(http://www.lexonia.net) offers domain registration for only $15 per
year, so you can do better than $35!
-- John
Zeke Runyon wrote:
>
> 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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