[nmglug] web and email server setup

Bob Knight bob at bobknight.net
Sat Nov 6 07:56:22 PST 2004


If you want, I can share some of the bind configurations that we have 
for LCWA. I wouldn't characterize it as insurmountable. There's details 
and once you know what they are, then it's not
much of a mystery.

Bob

Josh Gentry wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 07:16:48PM -0700, Mars DeLapp wrote:
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>>Andres Paglayan wrote:
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>>>Here is the scenario,
>>>I am setting a linux box at home so it can provide me web, email, svn, 
>>>remote work backup,  and other stuff
>>>almost everything works, ...but,
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>>>
>>So what did you do for DNS?
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>>I have been browsing through BIND info and it has me totally baffled.
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>BIND is a beast.  Actually, if you are just setting up a caching server 
>to speed up requests, that's pretty easy.  Being authoritative for a 
>domain, however, is a different story.  Not impossible by any means, but 
>DNS is complex, and people don't tend to have a lot of experience with 
>it.
>
>As usual, O'Reilly has a good book.
>
>Josh
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