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wEaViL - Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:37 am
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Does anyone know of a free dns server I can download? I did a download.com search and a google search but everything they come up with either cost money or claims its free then you find out to use your own www.whatever.com address it cost something.

A380 - Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:49 am
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Try here http://www.tzo.com/

newb - Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:16 am
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Oh, hi Serge.

wEaViL - Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:19 am
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they still charge 25 bucks after the 30 day trial... and i need one for my own domain name, not there whatever.tzo.com addy's

Screennam123 - Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:43 am
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http://www.stormystudios.com/index.php?page=KNet

Dr Brain - Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:15 am
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Use bind or djbdns.

I personally use Bind because there's a lot of documentation for it. They do say that djbdns is better though.

Mine GO BOOM - Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:21 am
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wEaViL wrote:

they still charge 25 bucks after the 30 day trial... and i need one for my own domain name, not there whatever.tzo.com addy's

So wait, you want a local DNS server, so whenever you lookup an address (ie: forums.minegoboom.com), it checks your local DNS server for the IP address? If so, bind is what I use on my firewall as a local DNS cache for quicker access

Or you want a name/domain server, so whenever someone looks up mysite.com, it will check with the name/domain server to find the IP address? If so, I can offer that with my site, and there are many other free ones that can too.

Or you want to register a domain name, such as minegoboom.com? If its a top-level domain, it will cost money, or else the site you are registering it will have some other method, such as they own the domain and not you, or you have to sign up for something. Buying a domain name isn't expensive, I pay less than $10 a year for mine.

Or you want a free thing, such as DynDNS which will let you have something like weavil.homeserver.net always point to your computer's IP address?

A380 - Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:25 am
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www.ededicatedplus.com
Do you want it hosted or you host it?
newb who ever you are, I am not Serge.

Anonymous - Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:28 am
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SpeedUP! wrote:

www.ededicatedplus.com
Do you want it hosted or you host it?
newb who ever you are, I am not Serge.

Holy crap! Is it that hard to understand what he is asking? And I beg to differ, I beleive your Serge.

Purge - Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:13 am
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Let's not get into that mess again.

Maverick - Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:30 am
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Why don't use the windows DNS server you get with windows 2000 / 2003 ?

Purge - Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:31 am
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Maverick wrote:

Why don't use the windows DNS server you get with windows 2000 / 2003 ?

He might not have that.

Maverick - Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:33 am
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Purge+ wrote:

Maverick wrote:

Why don't use the windows DNS server you get with windows 2000 / 2003 ?

He might not have that.

Worth the shot though

wEaViL - Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:35 am
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I have xp Pro so no dns server comes with it, only 2000 and 2003 have it. i'm not sure what i need... im going to host my own .com site and i dont know if my ip has ever changed so i need a dns host to keep it setup so it dont go offline if the ip changes. I dont want to pay for a dns host since im already going to be paying for the .com address. I assume i can run a dns server from this computer and it do what i need it too.

I'm running apache 2 with php, mysql, python and all of the other goodies, including a ftp server and mail server.

wEaViL - Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:40 am
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Mine GO BOOM wrote:

[..]

Or you want to register a domain name, such as minegoboom.com? If its a top-level domain, it will cost money, or else the site you are registering it will have some other method, such as they own the domain and not you, or you have to sign up for something. Buying a domain name isn't expensive, I pay less than $10 a year for mine.

Thats what I want to do, you can check the link out to see what you think of the site i'm going threw to get the domain name. http://domains.aplus.net/

I also have another question. I've never messed with domain names or anything before other then using no-ip.com's free service. Does it cost extra to set it up so that like for mgb's site forum.mgb points to the forum and wiki.mgb points to another section or what do i need to know?

CypherJF - Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:40 am
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NoIP unless you need nameservers

Solo Ace - Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:48 pm
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Mine GO BOOM wrote:

Ahem? How about C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts?

Not sure if that's relevant, though.

Bind owns.
Heh, when I put a site up for SS, can I get a DNS redirection as a subdomain at minegoboom.com?

I got a few on t3g.org already, but your domain is superior.

Maverick - Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:51 pm
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wEaViL, is it correct that you are going to host a webpage on your own computer? If that is the case then you should check if you haven't got a dynamic ip. If you do then you will have major problems with a domain which only redirects to a static ip.

D1st0rt - Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:25 pm
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Aren't .tk domains free?

wEaViL - Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:46 am
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Yes im hosting from my computer, as far as i can tell my ip has never changed, whenever i get a chance i have a old ss server on a backup disk, i can check it to see if the ips are the same still.

Maverick - Thu Mar 31, 2005 3:20 am
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D1st0rt wrote:

Aren't .tk domains free?

they are

However, you can pay for it aswell to make sure you keep the domain and for no ads:
http://www.dot.tk/vc00806.html#i