Re: [cobalt-users] Newbe Question

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Ed wrote:

>  I am still new at this so please bare with me.
> 
> 1. I have a RaQ4
> 2. Host site (www.ohbaptist.org) is registered at www.register.com and is
> directed to my ip. They are the DNS (both primary & secondary) for
...
> 4. The trouble I am having is that clients that have registered with Network
> Solutions and a few other ones do not have that option and have no way of
> directing to my box.

Yes, actually, they will do this, it's in the domain owners account
managment panel , however, they charge extra for it....
By default they point to a blank web page on their own web server

> 5. I do not have the Cobalt DNS enabled and was hopeing not to have to do
> this. I figure that this will be what I have to do but am very unsure what
> is required.  I have been told that maintaining the DNS is a very time
> consuming and troublesome job, but If this is what needs to be done then I
> will do it but am unsure what it takes to make it happen.

Doing it yourself will give you control over what happens, and may be
rather important if you ever need to move and change IP addresses for
example, or if you decide to make a site secure and have to change it to
it's own IP address...(to do that now you have to go and change every
record for every domain on register.com/networksolutions etc....)

However if you don't want to manage DNS yourself your internet provider
very likely will do it for you also, tho this isn't much more than what
registrer.com/networksolutions is doing now, but it will keep everything
together which is probably a lot less of a maintainence headache as you
get more sites...

Doing your own DNS really isn't all that hard for what you are doing, read
up a bit, play with one domain...(heck you can register something for $8
to play with ;) make sure you have uptodate software first....

gsh