DNS and hosting question

[Joel Hammer]

I am just an amateur but here is what I know.

I run a web page on my home computer, just for fun. I use
register.com to host my domain name, since my IP changes about once
every six months. Requests for my domain name resolve to
my home IP address. However, I can have additional IP
addresses under my same domain name. So, if I wanted,
they would allow other.domainname.org to be sent to
another IP address.  eg.  
domainname.org 68.32.32.1
xyz.domainname.org 120.32.17.1
would be possible at register.com.
My email
whomever at domainname
gets retained on the register.com mailserver until I pop it.
So, it sounds like what you want to do is quite possible.

You might even run a name server at your company and be
responsible for your domain name.

Joel


On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:09:36PM +0800, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I was asked about a certain scenario this afternoon that really got me 
> thinking. I'm not very familiar with the way web hosting providers 
> work, so I'm going to ask my question here. Hopefully someone can help 
> me. Here's the scenario I need a little help on :
> 
> 1. Company XYZ has a website hosted at a 3rd party hosting provider 
> (ABC Hosting Company) in a foreign country, under www.xyzdomain.com.
> 2. Company XYZ has a server it wants to deploy locally, and they want 
> it to be somehost.xyzdomain.com
> 
> This scenario is quite common in my country, actually, because 
> Singapore is an island with a LOT of restrictions, as some of you may 
> know.
> 
> My thinking is that, in order for the local server to be accessible as 
> somehost.xyzdomain.com, there needs to be a DNS entry for this server 
> at the hosting provider, ABC Hosting Company. Am I correct ? If ABC 
> Hosting Company requires additional payment and I cannot or do not 
> want to pay for an additional DNS entry, how can I get the local 
> server accessible by its fully-qualified hostname? How actually do 
> hosting companies handle this sort of request?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> pascal chong
> 
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