DNS server setup

[Hanasaki JiJi]

Oh.. and if you are DSL with PPOE, then you cannot run a server because 
the ip address on your computer is not the one seen by the external 
world.  You are NATed by the DSL.

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> Quoting Matthew Freeland <matthew at mfreeland.net>:  
>   
> 
>>Hi.  I own the domain mfreeland.net, which I wish to use as my personal  
>>domain for email/web site/ftp/telnet/etc.    
> 
>   
> Most of us Linux folk seem to go through this "what do you mean I can't run my  
> own DNS - didn't I buy the domain?" phase.  
>   
> You need two EXTERNAL DNS servers, to be specified by IP address (not domain  
> name) in order for the outside world to be able to resolve addresses within  
> your network.  The second one is for fault tolerance, and should ideally be  
> located at a seperate physical location on a different provider's network  
> (Microsoft forgot to follow this rule and lost their entire web for a day  
> once).  
>   
> In the "legitimate" business world, your ISP sets up one of the DNS servers  
> for you, or entries on it's own DNS server for your domain, and farms the  
> other server out to a contracted third party.  (Lots of ISP's cheap out and  
> don't do the right thing on that, they just run a second server on-site).  
>   
> However, in the Linux world, most of us have a "residential" line, our ISP  
> will not supply or support using it as a world-resolvable domain, and we're  
> too cheap to fork out the extra bucks for their "business" rate that includes  
> domain name service.  
>   
> Some DNS Registries are kind enough to allow you to enter a single IP for all  
> traffic to your domain to get forwarded to.  Many will at least forward the  
> www. host of your domain to an IP, and if they'll also forward mail to an IP  
> that's all you usually need.  
>   
> If you're on some crappy DSL connection like SWB residential (or, shudder,  
> dial-up like me), then you may have the problem of a truely dynamic IP address  
> that changes all the time.  If that's the case, then a service like dyndns is  
> what you need, so you can make quick, easy updates to your IP whenever it  
> changes.  
>  
> You will have the joy of running your own internal DNS for your masqueraded 
> network, and you can use it to point certain obnoxious domains like 
> addserver.com at something more fun and interesting. 
>  
> Welcome to the world of residential networking! 
> 
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