Recently I have been reading about DNS, Sendmail, Apache. I have noticed that some members have [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I got curious about how to do this. I got the impression that you need to run the bind/named services to do these things. anyway, there are lots of great howto's for these. But even after reading them I have some questions.
First of all, I was lead to believe in my reading that DNS is a service which should have a dedicated machine to it because of the risk of intrusion. There's a good howto about 'jail' for DNS services Second, should you run a 'master' service you HAVE TO also run a 'slave service' which should preferably be on a continent other than the one you are living on or at the very least, not on the same network. Third, a poorly done DNS not only leaves your network vulnerable but can actually pollute the naming service thoughout the Internet... Should a modest home user (such as myself) go to the risk of these activities despite the desire to host own site, have funky email? Could my ISP's named service be the 'slave' or backup service for mine? My plan is to use the configuration on my SMC router to NAT port 80 requests to my behind the firewall hosts for Apache and (tho I don't know which port it is...) sendmail. Is anybody doing this also? Shane
