DNS Hosting

[David Hamilton]

Not sure if its the same but, I had dynamic with TCIMETS and their leases
are very long.  With a long lease you will have the same ip unless you leave
your machine down for several days (or weeks depending on the lease time).

I had the same ip for almost a year.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu
> [mailto:linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu]On Behalf Of Jeremy Rickard
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 9:39 AM
> To: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> Subject: Re: DNS Hosting
>
> > Speaking of hypotheticals, and having an @home (intermittent)
> service (at
> > home of all places), I'm wondering if @home will allow you to point a
> > domain at one of their IP's.  I've got a (supposedly) dynamic
> IP (although
> > second level support told me it's really static and I've had it set for
> > static since day one and it's never changed), so that would complicate
> > things (mebee).
>
> technically they are "dynamic" but many a @home person has told me their
> dhcp server never revokes your IP so it will always be constant and when
> they came to "install" my modem, they made everything static.
>
> > Anyway, any other @home users have their own domains pointing to their
> > @home assigned IP?  Howdja doit?
> >
>
> downgrade.NET currently runs off of an @home ip address
>
> just change the primary nameserver and secondary nameserver to what ever
> you want :
>
> Primary Nameserver : ns.downgrade.net    24.7.245.31
>
> then you set up bind and setup A records to point at what ever you want :
>
> tombstone      IN   A     24.7.245.31
>                IN   MX    10    mail.downgrade.net
>
> huffduff       IN   A     24.2.222.220
>
>
> course, none of these will resolve due to @home, they'll still appear as
> c669503-c and c669503-a.elnsng1
>
> but it'll work
>
>
>
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