From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 09:09:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491D616A4E4 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:09:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zephon.secspace.de (zephon.secspace.de [62.75.136.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB26943D41 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:09:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml@ps102.de) Received: from [192.168.17.11] (pD95F2B4C.dip.t-dialin.net [217.95.43.76]) by zephon.secspace.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B4E6EB29; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:09:34 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <420F1963.3060609@ps102.de> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:09:55 +0100 From: Volker Kindermann User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RL References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up own domain and mailserver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:09:36 -0000 > This has to be the most compilcated subject to me. I just purchased a > new domain from godaddy. I have a few questions I am not totally > clear about yet. > > 1. I have adelphia cable internet. I would like to get a dyndns or > no-ip.com account to have a static IP for my new godaddy domain. > Simple enough. However, I would like to also do my own DNS to learn > more about it. Will I be able to do this if I set my nameserver on > godaddy to my box's dyndns address? And from there can I set up A > records, MX Records, etc and all that good stuff? > > 2. What about reverse DNS? Could I possibly do that on my box? > > 3. I would also like to run my own mailserver for that domain (again > to learn). Would I be able to do this and send receive email from/to > name@mynewdomain.com? I know most ISPs block port 25 and no-ip.com > has a pay service called mail reflector that can get around this. Is > this necessary? Why couldn't I just set up sendmail to use a port > other than 25 like 8080? I don't know the situation in your country. But here in germany you can rent a lowend dedicated server for about 40 $/month. With static IP and mostly with one or more domain-names. With such a server you can do all what you want without the problems coming from the dynamic IP. Perhaps that'll be an alternative for you. -volker