Hi everyone, back and resubscribed after vacation.
I've got a DNS question - I've been reading the DNS HOWTO and I
bought the DNS/BIND book.
I've got one singular static IP from ClipperNet, with a private
network I'm managing with IP MASQ. My linux box is the box that
has the static IP and serves as the gateway (it has two ethernet
cards).
I own an extra domain name that currently points to an ISP in
California on an account I don't want anymore. I'd like to
point the domain name to my own home network now so I don't
have to pay that ISP anymore. And so I don't have to pay
ClipperNet $75 to do it, I'd like to do it myself. Do I
have an accurate understanding of how this works? The domain
name is tangrams.com
0. Tell the internic to change it's address to my current
static IP
1. Set up a caching nameserver on my gateway using its
static IP as ns.tangrams.com
2. Have it refer to itself for all the other services like
mail.tangrams.com and www.tangrams.com, all on the same
box
Will this work this way? And will IP Masq continue to work
the same way? Also, do I actually have to tell my ISP
anything about it? I would still like to use their nameservers
for most of my dns queries, but I also want to be able to
tell the world the dns for *my* machine by reporting out so
that email and web traffic to tangrams.com will actually
come to my box. Finally, if I brought in a second domain
name with its own email and web traffic to point to the same
box, would I need a second static IP?
Thanks,
Curt
