who hosts my domain name - my own nameserver? mini-isp...

[Barry Margolin]

In article <390ED65C.EFC6746B at netscape.net>,
Netscape  <browser at netscape.net> wrote:
>No, i mean small isp for a couple dial-up users to have their own web space and
>use email.
>
>I figure I can put apache, bind, sendmail all on one system and use virtual hosts
>for alternate ip addresses, since
>i'll only have one dedicated static ip address from my isp.
>
>I wanted to confirm I could properly setup named to resolve my purchased domain
>name specifically for email on my own system -
>that way people can send me email to me at mypurchaseddomainname.net ...

Yes.  Modify the InterNIC registration of your domain name to specify your
machine as the nameserver instead of the ISP's machine.  You'll need to get
a secondary server as well; maybe they'll reconfigure their server as
secondary.

>
>
>> >if I pay for my own domain name from Internic
>> >can I have that domain name hosted by my isp's dns servers
>> >and then setup my own isp with a single static ip address given to me by
>> >my isp?
>>
>> Sure, except I think you mean setup your own name server, not your own ISP.
>> You will have to have a secondary server, however.  You could get a second
>> static IP address and host a secondary server on another machine, or have your
>> ISP or someone else run a secondary for you on one of their servers.  The
>> secondary will just pull the data from your primary server, you will still
>> control your own DNS data.
>
>
>


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