From: John Beckett 

"Geo."  wrote in message
news::
> Here is a trick that can save you from having to worry about someone hosting
> your domain. At the registrar you have to point a domain to a pair of dns
> servers. Typically these are something like
>
> ns.host.com 1.1.1.1
> ns1.host.com 2.2.2.2
>
> but you can just point at your website IP address instead (for example if
> you are hosting it on your dsl line) like this.
>
> www.yourdomain.com 1.1.1.1
> yourdomain.com 1.1.1.1
>
> now when someone types in www.yourdomain.com they go directly to your
> website even though nobody is hosting the dns. I think (I have not tested
> this) that if you are running your own mail server on the same machine your
> mail should work too.

Huh?

If I open http://www.yourdomain.com then my system will send the host name
to my DNS server.

In your scenario, my DNS server would end up sending the query to 1.1.1.1.
But that example IP is your web server, and it will not respond to a DNS
query. My attempt to open the web site would fail.

You could run a really-cut down DNS system on 1.1.1.1. It could answer all
questions with the single answer "1.1.1.1". You could possibly
rig up netcat to do that.

John

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