Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 06:01:49 -0600 From: n0oct@sbcglobal.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running own servers Message-ID: <20041222060149.5813eb82@shirley>
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> Joshua Tinnin gamera at pacbell.net wrote on > Tue Dec 21 19:56:20 PST 2004 > >On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:24:17PM -0500, RL wrote: > >Hi. I currently have a cable modem, but I want to (if it's not too > >pricey) run my own servers including DNS server. My cable provider > >currently doesn't offer static IPs so I have a dynamic. How would I > >go about setting up my own DNS? Would I do it through the cable > >modem? > >Wouldn't I have to buy an IP block and be the authority for it? I'm a > >little lost. :) > You will have problems doing this unless you have a static IP. I don't > think any cable service offers that. You can run a DNS server on an > internal network in your case. It's also possible to run a dynamic IP > resolver service, like No-IP's (dns/noip), but that is far from > perfect, > unless you're just doing this for testing. For any real-world purpose, > you really have to have a static IP and a fully-qualified hostname. I > have read of people running their own servers for everyday use using > something like No-IP, but if you're running a mail server, you will > most > likely have to deal with mail being rejected because of blacklisting > (many ISPs block all major ISPs' dynamic blocks from sending to their > mail servers to prevent spam), as well as reverse dns problems. While the reverse DNS thing is true, the mailservers can be set up to use a smarthost and still operate off a dynamic IP address. Mine do. -- JS
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