Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 18:55:13 -0600 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much to pay my ISP for my own Internet domain ? Message-ID: <366B2771.AC5E22A4@airnet.net> References: <412566CD.0053163F.00@domino.intercom.es> <XFMail.981205211139.megarcia@lix.intercom.es> <19981207100338.V603@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote:
> >> - DNS/SMTP configuration: USD 214
>
> This seems ridiculously high. What do they need to do?
>
> 1. Add a DNS zone. Say, garcia.org. The entry looks like:
>
> zone "garcia.org" {
> type slave;
> file "db.garcia.org";
> masters {192.168.168.192};
> };
>
> That's *all* they need to do. You do the rest.
>
> 2. Add your domain name to /etc/sendmail.cw:
>
> garcia.org
>
> And the want $214 for *that*?
If I was to offer, I'm sure you take it. :-)
> > I don't know how important this might be, but I think they
> > are running mainly Linux and perhaps some Windows NT.
>
> You need to find this out.
My ISP hasn't learned yet about this. After 5 am one morning, their mail
server ate my email account. When I called them after the offices
opened, I was informed that they had the rename the files in my mailbox.
I wanted to get it at 160 messages (1 per file). By the time I could, it
was > 200. And they wonder why they need a quad pentium 400 for a news
server.
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Kris Kirby
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