Hi Shane, You could also have a look at "free" DNS services provided through http://www.granitecanyon.com
I've been using this service for a few years now and had very few problems (intermittent downtime being a minor one). They can also be used as your secondary if you want to host your primary on your own box or whatever. They also have a pretty useful support newsgroup, should you have any problems or questions. Enjoy! Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 12:35 PM Subject: (clug-talk) DNS thoughts? > 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 >
