[PLUG] about domain name registration...

[Clint Ecker]

Like I said, I don't know much about the email forwarding part, but I can
help with the other
points.

a. That's the easy part just register it with your credit card at
www.register.com :)
b. Dunno (but you could get up a mail server on your machine: Mdaemon is
good for windows, linux has it built in)
c. This is also easy, I used to use Win32 Apache (www.apache.org),
configuring it for a simple website is no big
    deal if you read through the conf file.  The act of pointing
www.whatever.com to your ip is simple as logging
    into register.com's "manage your domain" section. clicking a link and
sticking in your IP.  It takes about 6-8hrs
    for the changes to propagate, some cases it can be as short as 1 or
2hrs, but by 24hrs its pretty much a done
    deal.
d. this is where register.com is a little stingy.  You can do URL
forwarding: www.foobar.com -> expert.cc.purdue.edu/~foobar
    but they consider this a little extra, so they will stick a little ad
bar at the bottom of the screen.   you can get rid of the ad
    bar for paying them a some more money to get their "platnium status",
but really if its just for holidays I can live with the
    ad bar :)

I'm not affiliated with register.com, its just where I've done the most
time, and I find it really easy and stuff.  You can also
specify a virtually unlimited amount of aliases like "purdue.foobar.com ->
www.purdue.edu" or whatever reasons you
have to do that sort of thing.  Anyways, thats what I know :)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin@csociety.purdue.edu
> [mailto:plug-admin@csociety.purdue.edu]On Behalf Of Sumanth Peddamatham
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 8:33 PM
> To: plug@csociety.purdue.edu
> Subject: [PLUG] about domain name registration...
>
>
> shit, now i'm confused.  what exactly to i need to have if i want the
> following things:
>
> a. i want to have the domain name www.FOOBAR.com
> b. with this domain name i want to be able have mail sent to
> blah@foobar.com
> and BIGblah@foobar.com forwarded to my 	purdue.edu e-mail addy.
> c. i want to be able to run a web server on my machine and have
> any requests
> to www.FOOBAR.com forwarded to my ip addy at 	purdue.
> d. when i go home over the holidays or whatever, i want to have
> the requests
> forwarded to my page hosted on my purdue 	account.
>
> is all of this possible for a flat, yearly rate?  see, i'm confused about
> the whole dns server thing.  do i have to pay the company to 'hold' my ip
> addy and forward all requests?  i thought that when a ip addy is
> registered
> on one dns server, it branches out to all the dns servers on the internet,
> and within a few days www.FOOBAR.com will point to my addy from any dns
> server.  however, this faq i'm reading says something contrary to
> that.  if
> you can help explain this stuff to me i would be grateful.
>
> sumanth p.
>
> and my shift key is not broken, See. 8-)
>
>
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