[SATLUG] Learning dns basics

[Zeb Fletcher]

Try this for reading. A very simple overview.. 
http://www.dyndns.org/support/kb/howdnsworks.html

-----Original Message-----
From: satlug-bounces at satlug.org [mailto:satlug-bounces at satlug.org] On Behalf
Of Larry Blodgett
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:01 AM
To: The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List
Subject: [SATLUG] Learning dns basics

I have been striving to get a BASIC understanding of dns.  For example.

What is authortative?
What is  a reverse lookup?
Stuff like that

I have been looking on the internet and the best I have found is 
http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/records.html

There seems to be several people involved in this whole thing.

my ISP (sbc) provides my fixed IP numbers and they associate the 
numerical address with a name like h1.glorypath.com
That name is what get with a host 64.123.93.185

my hosting supplier (surpass.com) lets me use their DNS serves and put 
their dns names and numbers into
the guys I bought my word names from

I apologize for not knowing the proper terminology!

You need not go into a long dissertation, you may know a good website 
that explains all this stuff in simple basic format

Thanks for any help you can supply,

Larry Blodgett
lblodgett at macosx.com

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