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Re: setting up DNS



On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, 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)...

A CNAME record would handle this.  I don't think more than one A record is
permissible.

Bob

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Bob Nielsen                 Internet: nielsen@primenet.com
Tucson, AZ                  AMPRnet:  w6swe@w6swe.ampr.org
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