DNS Server

SP8600

Hi, i know this isnt coding related but i thought you might know about this. I am soon getting DSL with a static IP and would like to host my own website on it, now i know i have to set up DSN records and stuff for this but am not sure how to, also i dont want to use a redirecting site of any sort i would just like the domain to be directed to my IP and have it as a true address e.g http://address.com/index/main.php or whatever the page would be. Does any one know of any tutorials or sites that explain how to set up DNS for this?

Thanks.

stolzyboy

DNS is really tricky in my opinion, and to do it the correct way, you would need two seperate computers, one each running DNS, then you would tell your registrar to point to your DNS servers, but if you have a decent registrar, they can simply point it to your ip, and mask it so you see the domain in the address bar

greg252

I looked into hosting my own site. First, if the provider found out that I was hosting and didn't have a business account, they would cancel my service. Second, when another company hosts your site, they have to worry about daily back-ups, power surges, equipment failure, climate control and others.
For me, it's worth the $10 per month for someone else to get a headache.

dalecosp

Greg's got some good points. Recently, we had to call the ISP that serves two of our client because they had blanket-blocked all inbound traffic on ports 80 and 25. Now, these were business accounts, but they simply shut the whole system table down piecemeal and brought the businesses back up individually as we called them. If they find out, and it is against your TOS, you could be up a creek.

That said, DNS is a tad tricky, but nowhere near impossible, else the 'Net would not exist, right? I run my own DNS and didn't find it too tricky, although I have one hostname that won't exist again until sometime next decade because of an extra zero in a TTL number in some file ... fortunately, it wasn't a needed prefix...

That said, what have you found at Google? Try "DNS forums" --- where you could post your questions, got opinions. Try "DNS help" --- but 'caveat emptor'. Try "named tutorial". If you run Unix/Linux, read the manpages for named. ...

HTH,

yelvington

If your DSL provider doesn't allow you to run servers, find a better DSL provider.

Running your own DNS is generally a bad idea, because of the way root TLD records are maintained.

It's especially a bad idea if you don't know what you are doing.

MyDNS.com provides free DNS services that you can configure through a Web form.

EasyDNS.com provides a low-annual-fee option. Their interface is somewhat easier to understand and their service is VERY robust.