On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:42, Andy George wrote:
> OK, so I just signed myself up for the Paradise Cable High speed drama...
> Overly excited about all this, but now that I've calmed a little, I'm
> guessing that a Static IP address (I specifically asked for one) means I
> can run a BIND/Qmail arrangement on my server at home, Galaxy.
>
> Trick is, I've had little experience with Internet based DNS and taking
> State of Authority over a DNS name... I can fumble my way (HOWTO) into
> building a DNS Server, but the rest eludes me. Anyone ever done this
> before? Nick? could point me in the right direction?
Yep, I've been running primary DNS and a qmail MTA on a paradise cable
connection since late 2001. I mainly did this as a learning exercise and it
kept me entertained at the time. This message was sent from said MTA.
I registered a .com domain with godaddy.com because @ US$8.95 per annum it was
the cheapest I could find at the time.
Whois Record:
Registrant:
BokTek
Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: BOKTEK.COM
Domain servers in listed order:
NS.BOKTEK.COM KIRSTY.PARADISE.NET.NZ NS1.GRANITECANYON.COM
Note: paradise and granitecanyon provide secondary name servers and paradise
also provide backup mail server support (they call it mail bagging) .
DNS/mail and other services are currently running on a RedHat distro, but over
the weekend I built a server running on Suse 9.1 pro this time with a postfix
MTA instead of qmail. I intend to change over to this after everything is
configured and tested.
On my Redhat Server I configured a dual homed DNS in a chroot jail. As Volker
has pointed out this is easier to do under Suse.
If I can be of any help let me know.
