[NTLUG:Discuss] How do I connect up a domain name to my IP address?

[Bob Byron]

granitecanyon.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Baker" <sjbaker1 at airmail.net>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] How do I connect up a domain name to my IP address?


> Newsletters wrote:
> > 
> > With whom did you register your domain name?
> 
> Network Solutions (aka VeriSign).
> 
> >  For example, If you
> > registered with www.register.com, you have to go to the manage your
> > account section and click the Change my IP section for pointing their
> > DNS Records to your IP.
> 
> They don't have an option like "Change my IP" - that's what I was looking
> for.  They have a "Change DNS" dialog - but that asks me for the names
> of two (Primary and secondary) DNS servers - but never asks what IP address
> they should service.
> 
> >  Similiarly, you also have to specify in another
> > option to register.com what the IP address is to deliver the
> > mail......This is assuming you just want register.com's DNS server to
> > resolve your name address (in my case, just sends the applicable queries
> > to my small DNS server).
> 
> No - I didn't want it to do that - I just want my domain name to point to
> my computer (or at least the firewall sitting next to my computer I suppose).
>  
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