On 4/21/21 1:37 PM, Jack Craig wrote:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 12:31 PM Tim via users <
users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2021-04-21 at 11:47 -0700, Jack Craig wrote:
b) You have a public domain name. Your registrar can handle public
queries for its data, and doesn't need to know anything about your
internal LAN addresses. Your local network can either use its own DNS
server, or you can use the hosts file, and it doesn't really need to
know anything about your public addresses. Since you said you only had
one computer, then the hosts file is more than adequate for local
addressing queries on the same machine.
Hi Jack,
Tim is giving you really good advice. The internet runs on DNS. Break
it and the internet breaks. Try to run a mail server with broken DNS
and you WILL learn immediately what a "Spit Storm" is. I'm pretty sure
I misspelled Spit.
Wild West day are gone. Unless you are doing this for academic
purposes, perhaps to try to figure how this all works, you are wasting
your time. Your registrar has fatter pipes than you can ever imagine and
faster than you could ever buy.
20 plus years ago I went your route (still Wild West back then) and
learned that you cannot compete in an asynchronous world where downhill
is FAST and uphill is SSLLOOWW. If you are running a server for public
consumption you want to serve FASTER than FAST and that is not possible
in an asynchronous world.
I had an AT&T /29 and had to deal with quints of quads for only $5US
extra per month. They raised that premium to $15US per month and I
realized that I could rent a pair of DigitalOcean servers for less than
I was paying AT&T and am sitting on monster pipes that are on the RIGHT
side of the asynchronous internet. You can't tell my service apart from
the big boys (girls too). And the world is NOT beating a path to my
HOME's front door. I'm back to being just another one of the world's
nameless users
Let Verizon publish your domain name. After all, it is just a name.
And anybody who has ever watched their dynamic IPs change and had to
figure out how to deal with that learns quickly that that is not the
right route. Good DNS lets you mix and match names and IPs on a whim
and lets you experiment where it DOESN'T come with serious repercussions.
2¢ worth of advice that is a bargain at half that.
Enjoy your voyage, you only get one ride on this trolley.
Mike Wright
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