From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 30 20:57:57 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 7D43A16A4CE for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:57:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2573643D39 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:57:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B3C5EE7; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:57:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24322-05; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:57:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4B85C32; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:57:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4273F14E.2030108@mac.com> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:57:50 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Tinnin References: <200504300514.50553.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <200504300514.50553.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS, BIND9 ... diving in ... 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: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:57:57 -0000 Joshua Tinnin wrote: [ ... ] > Received: from unknown (HELO smogmonster.com) > (jtinnin@pacbell.net@64.173.27.15 with plain) > by smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Apr 2005 11:26:08 -0000 > > Well, I don't own smogmonster.com (when I first picked it, nobody did, > but now someone does), but FreeBSD wouldn't let me assign a name that > wouldn't ever resolve, like simply "smogmonster". Is this a problem, or > should I not worry about it? Or am I missing something vital here? It's considered impolite to impersonate a domain which does not belong to you. For the purposes of email, it would be better to masquerade as a host in the domain of your ISP or mail service (ie, masquarade as pacbell.net). > Also, is there any sort of guide on how to set up DNS in my situation? Yes, use an invalid top-level domain like .local, or maybe .lan. > I've read the handbook, and it seems most of it is covered, but > additional sources are always welcome. Later, I'll be getting static > IPs and will probably have my ISP handle rDNS, but I'll need to assign > authoritative names at that point, though not until then. O'Reilley publishes an excellent book on DNS, although the BOG (BIND Operations Guide) is also worth a read. -- -Chuck