Domain Name

[Girl Power]

Hi,

First time installing SUSE Linux here.
Need help especially to set up domain name.

Suppose I have a SUSE Linux web server and it successfully hosted a website that can be view from any external computers by IP. For example if I type http://203.100.245.234/ into a web browser, I can immediately see my homepage.

And I also registered example.com and had created dns1.example.com, dns2.example.com.

How do I configure this domain name so that I could use it? I would like to be able to just type http : // www. example. com into any web browser to retrieve my homepage instead of typing the IP address as I used to do.

Do I need to create a resolve.conf and named.conf or something? I have read that SUSE adopt active directory similar to Microsoft IIS.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[gogalthorp]

In order to have name resolution across the internet you need to register the domain name. There are several conditions on the hardware that you need to maintain in order to register the biggest is that you need two IP addresses a main one and a fall back. These you just get from your ISP, also you must have a static IP address most ISPs assign addresses willy nilly so you can not be sure that your address will be the same tomorrow as today. You can of course ask your ISP for a static address but that normally requires an increase in the fees.

There are some services on the web that will provide what you need and redirect traffic to your address. Sorry I have no references at the moment. Maybe someone else can post some options.

[Girl Power]

>In order to have name resolution across the internet you need to register the domain
>name.
Not sure what you mean? Is the following qualify as registering it?

1) I started by going to a registrar website
2) Search for a domain name that has not yet taken
3) Pay for it

>There are several conditions on the hardware that you need to maintain in order to
>register the biggest is that you need two IP addresses a main one and a fall back.
>These you just get from your ISP, also you must have a static IP address most ISPs
>assign addresses willy nilly so you can not be sure that your address will be the same
>tomorrow as today. You can of course ask your ISP for a static address but that
>normally requires an increase in the fees.

Not sure if I am on the right track? I do have static IPs (x2) and as an example they are bound to the dns as followings:

dns1.example.com 200.100.240.217
dns2.example.com 204.100.250.233

>There are some services on the web that will provide what you need and redirect traffic
>to your address.

Not into renting server space with another company. Sorry. Been there done that. They can change the contents of my website stored on their server.

In other systems it is said that one need to create a resolve.conf and named.conf as well as install BIND. Then change the httpd.conf set HostLookUp to On.

However, I wonder if SUSE is using directory active that bypasses all these steps?