Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:53:27 +0100 From: Miguel Ramos <freebsd@anjos.strangled.net> To: martin@orbweavers.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Domain Registration Message-ID: <1145973207.15630.37.camel@compaq.anjos.strangled.net> In-Reply-To: <1145971310.15630.26.camel@compaq.anjos.strangled.net> References: <1950.217.37.3.201.1145965462.squirrel@www.orbweavers.co.uk> <1145971310.15630.26.camel@compaq.anjos.strangled.net>
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Ter, 2006-04-25 =E0s 14:22 +0100, Miguel Ramos escreveu: > > d) Are there any good reasons not to do it this way (remember, thi= s > > is not a mission critical setup, and its main purpose is to tinker) >=20 Also, if you only meen to tinker, try this, using only free services (this is what I use for my home computer, anjos.strangled.net): 1- get a subdomain at freedns.afraid.org, say yourhome.afraid.org 2- configure three records on your subdomain like this: yourhome.afraid.org NS yourhome.afraid.org. yourhome.afraid.org NS ns1.rollernet.us. yourhome.afraid.org NS ns2.rollernet.us. yourhome.afraid.org A yourip (may be dynamic) 3- configure your zone file, yourhome.afraid.org, with at least the following: @ NS yourhome.afraid.org. @ NS ns1.rollernet.us. @ NS ns2.rollernet.us. @ A yourip (may be dynamic) and perhaps, @ MX 0 yourhome.afraid.org. @ MX 10 mail.rollernet.us. @ MX 10 mail2.rollernet.us. 4- go to rollernet.us and activate secondary dns (and backup mx) for your domain. This is the best I could come up with for me. Sugestion #2: Peek on other people's setups using a combination of WHOIS, dns lookups and reverse lookups to find out which services they use. -- Miguel
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