Simple question that doesn't let me sleep :)

[Nathan Champion]

I would say that you are simply wanting to register a domain name though a registar (like
networksolutions.com) but instead of using your ISPs DNS servers, you want to use your own DNS
servers. If this is correct then you will need to have at least 2 dns servers running (one
primary and one secondry) and both will need seperate and static IP's. So you would have to ask
your ISP about that (mine gave me one and I use a friends static as a secondry DNS server).
Otherwise it is possible to simply 'host' your own website and email. You can setup the domain
and use your ISP's DNS servers, then get just one static IP. Tell your ISP to point any A
records to that static (if you want your machine to be known on the internet as
something.yourhost.com or www.yourhost.com tell them to add an A record that basically says
www.yourhost.com -> 123.123.123.123 (that number will be your static IP)) Then it is easy to
setup apache to serve up your website.

HTH,


Nathan

Vitali Malicky wrote:

> Hello ladies and gentlemen!
>
> I have been given a definite task:
>
> 1 to make several virtual ip-based hosts;
> 2 to set up a name server on that macchine;
> 3 to make that name server to resolve all those virtual host names
>   (so that not to pay our ISP for registering a number of new domain names);
>
>   for example:
>   I buy an ip-address, invent a domain name, check out if it already exists in the internet,
>   if not, then I can give it to one of my virtual hosts, and if someone from the
>   internet wants to see my site on that virtual hosts the dns query comes to my
>   name server where the qurey is resolved and everything is OK as a result :)
>
>   Is it technically possible or is it possible at all.
>   Thanks in advance for any help both little and detailed.
>
> The best of luck to you.
> Vitali Malicky
> System Administrator
> vitali at mbs.kharkov.com
> http://www.mbs.kharkov.com
> http://www.xplorex.com

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