Re: setting up DNS

[Lev Lvovsky <levl289@ucla.edu>]

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)...


> 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