Re: DNS/Domain questions

2001-09-28 Thread Mark Lanett
First, off, my guess is that you are using NAT. That is, you have 1 public IP address and several machines at home which share that IP using NAT (provided by a SOHO dsl/cable router box). In this case your home machines will never be visible to the public world. You don't need to provide DNS for t

Re: DNS/Domain questions

2001-09-28 Thread Tommi Jensen
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:22:22PM -0400, Doug Fields wrote: > 1) Buy DNS & BIND, 4th edition, and read it cover to cover the DNS-HOWTO is also quite alright for newcomers to DNS > 2) Use BIND9 instead of BIND, as that provides "views." Views allow you to > present one set of DNS entries to "the

Re: DNS/Domain questions

2001-09-28 Thread Doug Fields
In short: 1) Buy DNS & BIND, 4th edition, and read it cover to cover 2) Use BIND9 instead of BIND, as that provides "views." Views allow you to present one set of DNS entries to "the rest of the world" and another set internally Cheers, Doug At 11:44 AM 9/28/2001, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:

Re: DNS/Domain questions

2001-09-28 Thread Jason Healy
At 1001695456s since epoch (09/28/01 11:44:16 -0400 UTC), Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I just recently purchased a domain name and am wondering on a few things. You were a little vague, but I'll do my best here... > Which package would be best to create my own name server? A lot of places > ha