Kurt Wall wrote: <snip>
> > dyndns.org is looking like the easier way. Do you use the MyDynDNS > Custom DNS service? I want to use my own domain name and host my own > services. > Yes, I use MyDynDNS. > It looks like what I need to do is: > > 1. Set up an account wtih dyndyns.org > 2. Delegate my domain from my old ISP to dyndns.org's nameservers. > 3. Make a donation to dyndns.org. > 4. Do other stuff yet to be determined... > I did 3 before 2. You gotta donate before you get access to the MyDynDNS stuff anyway. I paid by check via snail mail and it took a little over a week before I could access MyDynDNS. My domain name was activated shortly after that. I don't s'pose it'd take so long if you use PayPal. Time was not of the essence for me, I still don't have a home page, yet (just the stock Caldera page, modified slightly -- which is why I'm not posting my URL in these messages). I had set up <name>.homeip.net (via StaticDNS) and <name>.webhop.org (via WebHop) before donating and they got activated within a day or so. I did the WebHop thing because I originally had my webserver running on a non-standard port, 8192, and the webhop address redirected to that port. Access via the homeip.net URL required entering the port number. Unfortunately, with MyDynDNS, I can no longer do the port redirect, so I opened port 80 rather than requiring the entry a port number to access my website. Of course, now I gotta deal with CodeRed, Nimda, et al, filling my logs. As far as "4. Do other stuff yet to be determined..." I'm with ya on that. I've still got a website to design (hoping to get the rest of the family involved in that) and I wanna set up a mail server so that we can have <name>@<mydomain> e-mail addresses. > Thanks to you, John Hiemenz, Collins Richey, Bill Campbell for the > input. > > Kurt > You're welcome. Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
