On 12/10/05, Chad Thomsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you have your box running httpd and DNS? Kewl. RR really accepts zone > transfers from its non-business accout home user customers? I did not think > they would but have never tried. I will have to give it a try as it sounds > cool.
I doubt very much that they will allow you to do a zone transfer. As Phillip Rhodes points out, though this isn't necessary. There are plenty of dns services out there who support mapping your domain name to a dynamic isp provided ip address. A few are dyndns.org no-ip.com, and zoneedit.com which is the one I use. Some of these are free, sometimes they're free for a subdomain of one of the domains the service owns, but there's a charge for domains registered to you. Keeping such services up to date is normally done by means other than zone updates via bind etc. Most use a separate daemon like ddclient which monitors the current ip address and sends updates via some protocol (often an http post) when it changes, or when required due to the services particular policy for informing them you are still alive. Keep in mind though that although this will let folks find your ip address from a given name, a reverse lookup of that ip address is going to resolve to the name your isp assigned to your ip address. I haven't found this to be a problem, although some software does check to see that forward and reverse dns lookups match, although this tends to happen more with servers checking clients than the reverse. As far as I know the only way around this problem is to get an pay for some kind of "business class" service from an isp which allows use of their DNS servers to set up the reverse zones. > So the ony cost you have is the cost of your registered domain name > (unless you count the cost of your hardware/software/broadband). I suppose > you would not have to pay for that unless its either taken already or you > were afraid of somebody else taking it away from you. This wouldn't work in general. What you are paying for when you register is getting your domain into the top-level domain name servers. If you want to use say foo.com, the tld servers for the .com domain have to have entries which point to the name server(s) which handle foo.com, whether these server(s) are owned by your isp, a services like zonedit.com, or you. There's no way to get around paying for that. If you are willing to use a subdomain of a domain that someone else owns you can get a "domain" without paying to register, for example you might use something like myspiffysubdomain.homeip.net and use dyndns.org which owns the homeip.net domain (and lots of others) and lets people "register" some number of subdomains with them for no charge. -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
