Lev Lvovsky wrote: > At Sunday 05:03 PM 4/11/99 , dyer wrote: > >Lev Lvovsky wrote: > > > > > >> my ADSL provider is mminternet.com, and my address is > >> silver168.mminternet.com (the IP is listed above). > > > >You've answered your own question here.... mminternet.com _is_ the domain, > >silver168 > >is only a machine on the domain. You don't register each machine. > > hrm, maybe there's still something that i'm missing...let's say I want to > register www.linuxnewbie.com (just an example), and have it point to my > machine (silver168). The ADSL provider provides me with a static IP, so I > figured this'd be possible (plus a friend of mine with the same setup did > it)...
Oh, I gotcha now. You should be able to register linuxnewbie.com (not www.linuxnewbie.com) with your IP address. Set up named (bind) and alias your machine to be www. (or ftp, etc...) > > > >you don't _need_ to be a dns server. ( You can install bind) BTW, I just > >pinged your > >box, and got a reply. YOur'e good to go. :-) > > hehe, I should hope you'd be able to ping the machine, it's my mail server > ;). Cool, I just found bind (was using DNS as a search string). > > thanks :) > -lev > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- dyer
