You need to setup "name servers" you can do that on your box, and then in your domain account you can set the name servers as ns.yourdomain.com, typically you need two IP addresses for two name servers, however if you do not want to do that you can get a secondary name server from one of the free dns hosting services, like http://www.xname.org/ and there are others you can google them but the names excape me. THIS SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN AS GOSPEL, and there are others on here MUCH MUCH better at this then I am, but this should get you started. You will need BIND/DNS server installed on the box. /etc/named zone "yourdomain.com" { type master; file "/var/named/yourdomain.com.named"; allow-update { none; }; }; /var/named/yourdomain.com.named $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA ns.yourdomain.com. youradminemail.yourdomain.com. ( 2005112208 ; serial, todays date + todays serial # 10800 ; refresh, seconds 3600 ; retry, seconds 604800 ; expire, seconds 86400 ) ; minimum, seconds NS ns.yourdomain.com. NS ns1.yourdomain.com. MX 10 mail.yourdomain.com. ; Primary Mail Exchanger MX 20 mail2.yourdomain.com. ; Secondary Mail Exchanger yourdomain.com. IN A 216.75.15.233 ; Nohost mail IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mail2 IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ns IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ns2 IN A yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy ;end of the file /var/named/xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa $ttl 38400 xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ns.yourdomain.com. youradminemail.yourdomain.com. ( 1104865919 10800 3600 604800 38400 ) xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ns.yourdomain.com. xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ns2.yourdomain.com. xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ns.yourdomain.com. xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ns2.yourdomain.com. xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR mail.yourdomain.com. xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR mail2.yourdomain.com. /var/named/xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA ns.yourdomain.com. youradminemail.yourdomain.com. ( 44 ; serial, todays date + todays serial # 10800 ; refresh, seconds 3600 ; retry, seconds 604800 ; expire, seconds 86400 ) ; minimum, seconds NS ns.yourdomain.com. NS ns2.yourdomain.com. 3 in ptr yourdomain.com. the dots after the domain name is not a mistake. On 11/3/06, Edward Dekkers <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey there guys, for years I've run fetchmail to grab mail from my isp in multidrop mode. Now, my area is finally ADSL enabled. The ISP I'm going with gives out free static IP addresses. I've also bought a domain name which is currently parked. I'm pretty sure I can get the sendmail part sorted, but DNS has me confused. At the domain name site, I can put in two name server fields. Originally I thought I could just run DNS here on my Linux box. But apparently from what I understand of the reading I'm doing I'd need two servers to do this. Other readings I'm doing are telling me to use my ISP's DNS servers and have them set up the records for me. At this stage I do not know whether that will cost money or not. Some whispers around the traps tell me there's free DNS hosting services all over the net. All in all I'm very confused. Could someone tell me what step 1 would be to get this going? Thanks Ed. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
