[TriLUG] DNS question

[Jon Carnes]

Mark, you have a single IP address from your ISP.  Your ISP *probably*
controls the DNS for you.  You should be able to contact them and ask them
to modify the A record for your IP address.  If they don't allow that, they
should add a CNAME for you.  You will be using one of your ISP's domain
names.

Note, you can always buy a domain name (well "rent" is probably a more
accurate term) from any of the resellers of Domains.  Then as a service,
they will point your Domain to whatever address you tell them to.

Once that is done, folks can reach your firewall by typing in your Domain.
You will have to open up port 80 on your firewall and run a webserver there
or run a redirect to a webserver somewhere else (a machine inside your
firewall or at another location all-together).

Hope this helps - Jon Carnes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark" <mark at thefowles.com>
To: "trilug" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 3:40 PM
Subject: [TriLUG] DNS question


> I have a DNS question - I want to add a web site accessible to the
> world, right now I have a static IP (given to my firewall), where do I
> add the dns record that would allow resolution so that the site is
> accesible? or should I put my DNS environment on the firewall?
>
> thanks,
> mark
>
>
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