[ALUG] Re: How to manage domain names on an ADSL connection?

[cl at isbd.net]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:15:44AM +0000, Tim Green wrote:
> On 1/3/07, cl at isbd.net <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >Currently my ADSL is UKFSN/ENTANet and I have a static IP address, the
> >domain name is 84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net.
> 
> >What's the easiest and/or neatest way of sorting this out?  Obviously
> >my basic requirement is to make my slackware box think it's
> >isbd.ltd.uk and to hide 84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net completely.
> 
> Will your ISP change the reverse DNS for your IP address? This will
> get rid of the less friendly name you currently have. You need to
> arrange for your chosen name to point to the IP address and they will
> change the IP address to resolve to your chosen name.
> 
> How much control do you have of isbd.ltd.uk DNS entries?
> 
I can add/delete/modify A and CNAME and MX records.

Can I simply add a CNAME record that points www.isbd.ltd.uk to
84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net?  (and remove the existing www A
record)

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)