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Thanks,

-Bryant

Quote:> I was wondering, is it possible to host your own domain name for your web
> site?  IE say I have yahoo.com, can I run my own DNS servers so that I
> can configure games.yahoo.com, mail.yahoo.com, etc?  Will they be
> recognized by the rest of the web?  What if you only have one DNS server
> instead of two?

> Thanks,

> -Bryant

    B> I was wondering, is it possible to host your own domain name
    B> for your web site?  IE say I have yahoo.com, can I run my own
    B> DNS servers so that I can configure games.yahoo.com,
    B> mail.yahoo.com, etc?  Will they be recognized by the rest of
    B> the web?  What if you only have one DNS server instead of two?

So long as you *own* the domain name yahoo.com, you can have as many
aliased or subnet host names for it as you wish.  One of the newer
features of Apache even allows you to use fred.yahoo.com and
donna.yahoo.com at the same IP address (so you don't need to purchase
a network licence) and still give different websites for both; this
technique is being used by sites who offer discount (or free)
webhosting with a hostname of yourname.theirname.com

You generally don't need two DNS; the second one will be from your
upstream ISP.

Keep in mind that a domain name is not the same as an IP address.  You
can have more than one domain name at the same IP, you cannot have
more than one IP for the same domain (not at the same time, although
you can have dynamic IP DNS using the newer BIND software)

oh, and btw, I *think* the domain yahoo.com has been taken ;)

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