Chris What I would do is use a free DNS Server provider and maintain the records myself as I need on an ongoing basis. I have used this concept successfully in the past using www.mydns.com .
This was a few years back so ymmv. brgds Kevin Attard Compagno [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 18 March 2005 07:59, James Attard wrote: > afaik, it can only done through ISP (i.e. if the ISP doesn't reverse > DNS your domain, it won't work) > > Jamez. > http://root-box.info > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 03:16:01 +0100, Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi mates, i'm trying to setup a small irc shell for me and my friends, > > and i'm trying to experiment with vanity hosts. I will be using > > freedns.afraid.org for creating subdomains to use as vhosts. It let's > > set A records etc. Then i thought of setting only the PTR records on my > > dns server to i will reverse dns and instead of my ip, the desired > > hostname will showup. > > > > Currently my static ip is 217.145.5.206 > > afraid.org has the following nameservers: ns1.afraid.org and > > ns2.afraid.org > > > > what if i do the following...after choosing a public domain to create a > > subdomain..let's say i get freebsduser.com and from it i create > > asym.freebsduser.com > > > > in named.conf i would setup this: > > > > zone "freebsduser.com"{ > > type slave; > > file "freebsduser.com"; > > }; > > > > then the zone file would be something like this: > > > > $TTL 3600 > > > > 206.5.145.217.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ns1.afraid.org. admin.afraid.org. ( > > 5 ; Serial > > 10800 ; Refresh > > 3600 ; Retry > > 604800 ; Expire > > 3600 ) ; Minimum > > > > @ IN NS ns1.afraid.org. > > @ IN NS ns2.afraid.org. > > > > 2 IN PTR ns1.afraid.org. > > 3 IN PTR ns2.afraid.org. > > 10 IN PTR asym.freebsduser.com. > > 30 IN PTR freebsduser.com. > > > > Would this be correct? I actually once called euroweb to setup a reverse > > dns on a particular host for me..and it worked..however it wouldn't be a > > good idea to call them everytime i want to change hostname. > > > > Regards > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MLUG-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
