On 11 Feb 2020, metalhead said the following...
My understanding is that a cname maps one domain to another - that
doesn't sound like something I want; or do I have that wrong?
And my understand is that an A record maps a domain to an IP address - that doesn't sound like it's for me either, because I have a VPS but I don't have a unique IP address.
Shadowscope.com is hosted offsite, through Livingdot. I map
bbs.shadowscope.com using CNAME to my dynamic dns name, shadowscope.noip.us, which resolves to my BBS.
-=>Richard Miles<=-
-=>Captain Obvious<=-
-=>bbs.shadowscope.com<=-
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/09 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Shadowscope BBS | bbs.shadowscope.com | Temple, GA (21:1/157)