Hi
17 May 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SH> What I meant is this: I have to give a name to my web server.
SH> How do I know that I have given it a unique name? Also, what is
SH> there to prevent you from giving your web server the same name as
SH> mine? What is there to prevent us from representing our servers as
SH> being a server that belongs to somebody else?
It is COMPLETELY irrelevant what *YOU* call it.
The only important thing is what names are matched to your IP by the DNS.
Eg you make your server listen to microsoft.com
But no DNS server will deliver your IP to anybody seeking microsoft.com
>> SH> Do I have to register or copyright my server address with some
>> SH> recognized authority somewhere?
>> yes ... and additionally you have to pay for it :)
>> Otherwise you could simply setup microsoft.com and everybody comes
>> to your site :)
SH> As I understand the system, the person you pay sets up the mechanism
SH> that will allow only your registered server to be fetched when
SH> somebody types its name into his browser. How did this Master Of All
SH> Domains, whoever he is, ever achieve such power to control the
SH> internet? Doesn't he ever have power struggles with others who might
SH> want to take over? Who is this guy and why does everyone who pays
SH> tribute unto him trust in his protection?
read a good DNS howto :)
DNS is a distributed hirarchical database.
In former days network solutions owned the root servers.
PS: You don't pay persons, you pay companies.
And these companies pay to the company which operates the DNS root servers.
Anybody can want to take over. As long as he has no power to insert data
into the root DNS servers.
>> If you have a dynamic address (eg changing and not static) you can
>> use a 'dynamic DNS' Service. (eg http://www.dhs.org and search for
>> dyndns)
SH> I do have a dynamic address. I get an IP number automatically
SH> assigned by my ISP each time I log in. Can I just set up my web
SH> server to have the web address that is the same as %MYIP%?
sure ...
you don't need a domainname
you can simply go to the url http://yourip
SH> If this were the case, then nobody would know how to access my
SH> web-server unless there were some way for him to know whatever my ip
SH> number is during any given session.
yes
there are also so called dynamic DNS services.
They set the TTL to a very low value, and you simply tell the dynamic dns
servers your current IP.
look for example at http://www.dhs.org (dyn.dhs.org especially)
SH> If my questions seem to you to be very stupid ones, that is because
SH> I haven't yet done any research on this business of buying and selling
SH> domain names.
it's not the business part you don't understand, but the technical one <bg>
sorry ;)))
SH> Furthermore I don't even have any idea as to where
SH> would be a good starting point to look into the matter.
DNS howto
SH> Regards,
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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