Re: OT (slightly): djbdns question

["Mark Lanett" <mlanett@frohike.com>]

Typically the registrar (not ISP) hosting your name offers simple DNS
services, so you can have your name pointed to any IP# without running a DNS
at all. But fancy DNS records with multiple MX entries and the like will
require you to run DNS. Or you could use The Public DNS.

However you can't have reverse lookup (IP#->name) without getting the
university to do it. They own their IP# space and run the servers which
provide names for the IP#s.

In practice lack of reverse lookup should not be a problem.

~mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason P. Stanford" <jps3@acs.art.lehigh.edu>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 8:31 PM
Subject: OT (slightly): djbdns question


>    Could I use djbdns (under OBSD, of course) to map a .com domain
> name to a box within my university without going through the IT
> department?  I have had a domain name that I'm paying for but am
> no longer using the web hosting service I had been.  So the domain
> name is sitting unused.