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

[Netscape]

what kinda bugs me about that is the fact i need two actual seperate pieces of
hardware in order to receive email at me at mypurchaseddomainname.net

i only have one ip address to the Internet anyway - I would need two seperate ip
addresses with two machines

and if i set two seperate systems up as a lan with that main single ip Internet
connection - wouldn't that be the same idea as a virtual ip address ...

couldn't i setup a virtual ip address and then setup a master file in BIND
specifically for that ip address which would be:
mail.mypurchaseddomainname.net

then i could resolve my dns as forward zones to my local isp???




i appreciate your help, but understand if naught


Barry Margolin wrote:

> 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.