Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 07:36:32 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hosting my own domain. Message-ID: <15094.38608.55787.803267@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <p05100301b71c40531131@[10.0.1.2]> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10105070020580.10749-100000@ahiri.cse.iitd.ernet.in> <p05100315b71b942acf75@[10.0.1.2]> <15094.31214.636801.776965@guru.mired.org> <p05100301b71c40531131@[10.0.1.2]>
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Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> types: > At 5:33 AM -0500 5/7/01, Mike Meyer wrote: > > I'm not familiar with dyndns, but tzo.com (which is a commercial > > service) points *any* reference to your TLD at your one IP address. So > > I can set up www & www2 as name-based virtual hosts. I could even set > > up www.mike.mired.org as such a server, and gee, look - the MX for > > mail.mike.mired.org already points to mail.mired.org, so I can use my > > mail servers virtual domain system to sort out mail for that. > Interesting. Do they do this with a wildcard RR? Probably. You'd have to ask them. > I wonder what would happen if people started generating tons of > spam with the return address "garbage@spam.mired.org", or somesuch > other bogus return address, since tzo.com guarantees that all > possible domains under mired.org will be valid? Just how many > bounces of spam can you take, and how many irate responses can you > deal with? No more than I could if they used "garbage@mired.org". I've had the latter happen, and just set up an auto-responder saying that the mail had been forged, and I had nothing to do with it. Fortunately, there wasn't a lot of it. If you're really interested in this type of thing, check out the nowhere.com web site. > Note that a static IP address allocation does not necessarily > mean anything with regards to a full-time connection. You can easily > have one without the other, in either direction. Yup. At various times, I've had all four different versions. I even had a ricochet wireless modem - one of the original ones - with a static IP address. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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