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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Rob Antonishen on May 16, 2001, 02:22:17 AM
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Hi.
I have read the docs and searched through the forums and can't find a clear answer, so here goes...
I am planning to use e-smith with a dynamic DNS provider. As an example I will use dyndns.org. Assume I have set up an account there called bob. This means that my IP will be reached by anyone on the internet by bob.dyndns.org, right?
So...when I create the e-smith server, I am prompted for a domain name and a system name....do I make my Primary domain name dyndns.org and my machine name bob? (I think this is wrong..) or do I set my primary domain as bob.dyndns.org and set my machine name to e-smith (I am guessing this is right.)
Would the second allow me to set up www.bob.dyndns.org, ftp.bob.dyndns.org, etc as an alias all to the one machine e-smith.bob.dyndns.org?
Looking for an answer...
Rob.
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Rob Antonishen wrote:
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> I am planning to use e-smith with a dynamic DNS provider. As
> an example I will use dyndns.org. Assume I have set up an
> account there called bob. This means that my IP will be
> reached by anyone on the internet by bob.dyndns.org, right?
yes
> So...when I create the e-smith server, I am prompted for a
> domain name and a system name....do I make my Primary domain
> name dyndns.org and my machine name bob? (I think this is
> wrong..)
Yes, it's wrong
or do I set my primary domain as bob.dyndns.org and
> set my machine name to e-smith (I am guessing this is right.)
Yes
> Would the second allow me to set up www.bob.dyndns.org,
> ftp.bob.dyndns.org, etc as an alias all to the one machine
> e-smith.bob.dyndns.org?
Yes,
Alejandro
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Rob Antonishen wrote:
> I am planning to use e-smith with a dynamic DNS provider. As
> an example I will use dyndns.org. Assume I have set up an
> account there called bob. This means that my IP will be
> reached by anyone on the internet by bob.dyndns.org, right?
Nearly - if (and only if) you have set up the domain on dyndns. For example, my domain (hillis.dyndns.org) is kept under another account name)
> So...when I create the e-smith server, I am prompted for a
> domain name and a system name....do I make my Primary domain
> name dyndns.org and my machine name bob? (I think this is
> wrong..) or do I set my primary domain as bob.dyndns.org and
> set my machine name to e-smith (I am guessing this is right.)
The latter, yes - or at least, that's the way I've set it up. :-)
> Would the second allow me to set up www.bob.dyndns.org,
> ftp.bob.dyndns.org, etc as an alias all to the one machine
> e-smith.bob.dyndns.org?
Yes.
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Thanks!