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From: | Urs Liska |
Subject: | Re: maybe we could use blog.lilypond.org as the blog's address? |
Date: | Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:43:25 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 |
Am 06.06.2013 23:01, schrieb Michel Villeneuve:
- Whoever is the admin of lilypond.org would have to: - register/set up the subdomain blog.lilypond.org - edit the nameserver (A-Record) for that subdomain to point to my provider's IP - Then my server would transparently serve the blog as blog.lilypond.org Two aspects have to be considered this way: - I would have to become a 'secondary' owner of the lilypond.org domain - The yearly domain registration fee would have to be paid twice.Are you sure of this point?
Yes.
Yes, but the issue isn't to provide the subdomain at all but to let it be served from a different provider. In that case the one doing the hosting has to register the domain too (as "external registration") because otherwise he wouldn't be able to serve content with the different domain. And the registrars (the companies that manage DNS) usually charge for that service. In my case it would be EUR 18/year - not really much but nevertheless something.The owner of lilypond.org can provide any subdomain (blog.lilypond.org www.lilypond.org foo.lilypond.org etc.) for free in a simple edition of the zone file. It's the owner of .org that decided to make the subdomain lilypond.org available for money. This principle is recursive : whoever owns blog.lilypond.org can provide an infinity of subdomains ( foo.blog.lilypond.org ) by editing a single file. To say it another way the owner of foo.lilypond.org does not have to talk to the owner of .org but only to the owner of lilypond.org.
Urs
For the technical details it's explained here (but it's in french sorry) by a french associative internet provider fdn (french data network) : http://www.fdn.fr/Formation-DNS-Mail.html Hop it helps. Disclaimer : I love the idea of blog.lilypond.org, I'm not affiliated or representing in any way fdn. -- Michel Villeneuve
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