On Mon, 2021-04-12 at 12:06 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > Oh so now I have learned something new. > > I thought that because I was a Domain owner, I had to do the > translation from my public IP to my local DNS name Just to be clear: By "your public IP" do mean the IP for your server that the world is going to view pages on? Or do you mean the public IP that your computer is currently located at (which will probably change often, if you don't pay for a fixed IP)? And are they one and the same thing? Are you serving from your own PC? Is is an external computer serving your files to the public. If your website server isn't your own computer on your own network, there's no need for any public DNS records to have your own network addresses in them. Whatever the answers are to the above, you don't have to provide the DNS records for that on your own equipment. Any DNS server can provide answers to DNS queries. But for the general public to be able to use your domain name, your records have to discoverable on public DNS servers. Normally, when you register a domain and have it hosted, that's all taken care of for you. They put the records in their domain server, and their domain server feeds info upstream to higher up servers (it's all like a family tree). You can see that sort of thing with the "dig" tool. If you do a "dig example.com" you'll get a collection of responses. The "answer" section is the domain name and numerical IP address for it, that you queried. The "authority" section will be the authoritative name servers for those records (the master host for them). An "additional" section which can provide info about those authoritative servers. And in the last bit will be the "SERVER" that directly answered your query. > in as much as networksolutions.com, my domain registrar provider, has > already the IP and host name then > > I don't need to provide that so let me trim off that external. zone > I'm assuming that I still need to provide service for the 10.0.0.0 > internal addresses, but that could just be covered by my /etc/hosts > file right? Your own internal address resolution is done within your own computer network. That can be a hosts file, it can be your own name server. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.21.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 18:28:22 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
