RE: help on dns and mail implementation

["Stewart M. Ives" <ivessm softecusa com>]

Arvin,

In order to play with the outside world (mail, web, etc) you are going
to HAVE TO register a domain and get someone on the web to provide your
DNS services.  There is no other way to do this unless you only want to
continue to access your net from the internet by it's IP address only.
By using your IP address only you can hit your network from anywhere on
the internet and do everything you want but it is not the way the rest
of the world does it.

When you register your domain you are going to be asked who is providing
your DNS services and what is your static IP for your domain.  Make sure
you have the DNS stuff agreed to so you can complete your registration
all at once.

Also, don't plan on providing your own DNS services.  Not recommended
for a beginner, not advisable without multiple connections to the
internet, not what you want to do.  Internally you just want to run a
caching DNS on your internal network.

Have fun.

stew


-----Original Message-----
From: enigma-list-admin redhat com
[mailto:enigma-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of arvinboy
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 5:57 AM
To: enigma-list redhat com
Subject: help on dns and mail implementation


to all,
                     hope you can help me in my situation right now. our
head office is planning to have a mail backup server for our clients.
this are my quetions:
                   1.) i already had a running DNS server which can
resolved into my internal ip eth0( 202.58.151.59).this is my public ip
which was given from my isp and eth1(191.168.1.1) for my internal
network which also be used for my web services. how could i make this
thing work. i already ask my isp but they are not allowing me to use
their nameservers as my resolver to the outside. they told me, inorder
to use their nameservers, they are requiring me to register a domain.
any other options?
                   2.) if my dns works well, my next plan is to setup a
mail server into my server? could i possibly run my mail server into my
internal network as a test, since i am having negotiation with my isp
regarding nameserver which is related to number one.
                   3.) im using bind-9.1.3-4,
bindconf-1.6.1-1,bind-utils-9.1.3-4 and caching-nameserver-7.2-1, is
this a good package, if not what version should you recommend, i'm using

redhat7.2

                   please guide to the right track...godbless and thank
you!

arvin






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