[thelist] domain self-hosting

Daniel J. Cody djc at starkmedia.com
Fri May 4 13:55:25 CDT 2001


Hey Sarah - 

Check out 
http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-resolv.html

its a chapter of the Linux Network administrators guide, volume 2

that is a nice explanation with some decent examples.

Of course, if yuo have any specific questions, feel free to ask here too
:)

.djc.

sarah wrote:
> 
> Thank you for all the suggestions, but perhaps I
> didn't explain in enough detail.
> 
> Basically I want to learn how you set up DNS and mess
> around with that sort of technical stuff. I have the
> server running fine and I do the whole localhost deal
> fine and dandy. I'd just like to know how to do it.
> 
> Mainly what I want to do is write a web mail
> application that uses the mail accounts on the linux
> box, so I need friends of mine to be able to access it
> and test it out for me. I'd also like to create a
> permanent email address for myself through there that
> is sarah at something.com.
> 
> I'm using dyndns.org now, which does the same thing as
> what many of you suggested. But I'm looking to get
> down and dirty and do this myself, so real articles
> about setting up BIND would be great.




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