From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 6 16:58:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26363 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 16:58:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (hsv1-221.airnet.net [207.242.81.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26358 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 16:58:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA05618; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 18:55:14 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <366B2771.AC5E22A4@airnet.net> Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 18:55:13 -0600 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much to pay my ISP for my own Internet domain ? References: <412566CD.0053163F.00@domino.intercom.es> <19981207100338.V603@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- Kris Kirby UAH Mail UAH CS Home WWW ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message