DNS Hosting

[Sean]

Actually to clarify that a lil bit. No offense to Paul.

You have two issues:
The first is mapping Yournewname.com to your box to
x.x.x.x This is fairly simple and should work flawlessly with whatever DNS
server your decide to use (free, do it yourself, etc). it maps
Yournewname.com -> x.x.x.x 

The other issue is reverse DNS lookup. This starts with x.x.x.x and tries
to find the name of the server. Since @home owns those IP's it will check
their server and find their name. As a result you get assigned the name of
yada.@home.com Only @home can change this.
You can call your server whatever you want to but anytime anyone looks up
your name from your ip number it will be the @home assigned one. 
 x.x.x.x -> yada.@home.com  

I hope that clarified it a bit. 

Sean


On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Paul J Donahue wrote:

> As for the @home junk, unfortunately yes you do have to have your primay name
> be the c182054-a.wherever.mi.home.com  however the way I did it was just set
> that as the primary name (well the name of the server is just: c182054-a) then
> the primary name+domain name is the whole deal, however one of it's aliases is
> server.whatever.com. Then it talks to the @home assigned DNS servers for it's
> configuration. Then you just register server.whatever.com to point to the same
> IP address that reverse maps to the c182.......home.com  This should accomplish
> your ends by having everyone on the internet know you as "server.whatever.com"
> but the ACTUAL name will still be the @home assigned one.
> 
> In short the answer to your question is YES, but ....
> 
> good luck! any more questions about weird cable modem junk just feel free to
> ask!
> 
> 
> Paul Donahue
> Computer Science Student
> Michigan State University
> http://donahue.tcimet.net/donahu16/
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