I was just speculating how hard it would be to turn my Fedora box (which is up all the time) into the central system all my other computers go to for information (smtp, dns, imap, dhcp, etc). The more I investigate, the more impenetrably obscure admin tasks I find I'd have to become an expert at. The biggest obstacle being that most administration howtos are written assuming I've got a block of static IPs and am running a "real" data center, whereas I'd want to fake all that by having sendmail or postfix or someone talk to my ISP as though it were simply any other mail client, and having a DNS server obtain its info by doing client style DNS lookups, not zone transfers and other obscure gibberish I don't understand and my ISP probably blocks anyway. Are there any guides to doing stuff like this anywhere? Are there even any lists of which obscure tools I'd have to become expert at (I doubt I have a complete list. Would I be likely to die of old age before I actually got a "home ISP" working seamlessly? :-).
