DNS How To?

[CrYpTiC_MauleR]

Ok if someone has a dynamic IP for their home internet and they want to point www.blahness.com to use that IP how would it be done? If they have a dyndns.org account would it make it possible?

What I'm thinking is putting domain to point to username.dyndns.org which will be setup with a DNS server, which will then give the DNS to point to the HTTP server. Not sure if that is possible even with both using the same username.dyndns.org hostname. The domain registrar does not allow port numbers but just the hostname. So thinking could it be also possible to setup a subdomain? Any ideas, or suggestions welcome. Thanks!

[nicholassolutions]

I would try to avoid multiple redirects if possible. You can get a free dns server, and write a script to automatically goes to the admin panel and updates the A record to point to your computer when the IP changes. That seems to be pretty much what ZoneEdit offers:
http://www.zoneedit.com/
http://www.zoneedit.com/doc/dynamic.html

You get 5 domains free, after that you've gotta pay -- I'm guessing that's more than you need. They also require that your site does not get a ton of traffic (less than 200mb/yr of traffic for eac "credit" -- not traffic to your site, but DNS lookups).

See here http://www.zoneedit.com/doc/faq.html#faq13 for more details

hth,
Matt

[COBOLdinosaur]

I don't ussually praise links, but that is a really great FAQ.  One of the best I have seen.  They do marketing, teaching, information exchange, and promote other services all in one spot, and it is not dull and dry.

That is the way a FAQ should be.