From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 2:18:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A05B37B423 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 02:18:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13WEqp-000Nqi-00 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:17:07 +0300 Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:17:07 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ISP ideas? Message-ID: <20000905121707.B84333@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.org References: <39B46437.74262033@attglobal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <39B46437.74262033@attglobal.net>; from Edward D Hensley on Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:10:48PM -0400 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/pine X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 12:01PM up 8 days, 51 mins, 11 users, load averages: 0.51, 0.49, 0.37 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Edward D Hensley : [000905 06:15]: Edward D Hensley>I have just installed FreeBSD 4.0 on one of my older computers Edward D Hensley>(Gateway2000 P5-120), and am actually enjoying the process very much. I Edward D Hensley>am also learning a lot about ISP's and Domains, which brings me to the Edward D Hensley>point of this email. Edward D Hensley> Edward D Hensley>I have acquired a domain name that I like, and now want to use it for Edward D Hensley>internet access, email, etc. However, my current ISp (ATTGLOBAL.NET) Edward D Hensley>requires that I sign up for Premium service to do so, and then they will Edward D Hensley>still add on a PRSERV.NET to the end of my name. By the way, I chose a Edward D Hensley>.org name since it is only for personal use. This is quite normal. If you registered your domain name with a body like Internic (network solutions) or Opensrs (Tucows) then your domain name is already in the root servers, which I believe should suffice. You can proceed and run your own name server (There is BIND) that does this. To set it up you'll need some info on configuring 'named' - you'll need to buy a book (BIND from Oreilly) or get some tutorials guys have put on the net, or even from the archives of this list! A good place might be www.daemonnews.org..... Edward D Hensley> Edward D Hensley>Is this normal? Have I grepped the situation with the wrong options? Edward D Hensley>Isn't there a way to sign up my domain name and use it for my address? Edward D Hensley>If I am way off base, I would appreciate someone letting me know. No problem here. You just have to name your FBSD box whatever.org (rc.conf), then set an smtp and POP3 server on it (Try Exim and QPOPPER - qpopper because I assume you're still not old enough ;-)) You can istall those from the ports..... One more thing.....there are FIVE or so major files you'll have to deal with in this whole process: /etc/rc.conf /etc/hosts.allow /etc/inetd.conf /etc/named/named.conf /usr/local/etc/exim/configure These are just pointers, there may be more and much work to do.... You may also need to talk nicely to a SysAdmin at your ISP for some help... s/he will be the best person to guide you... -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -Euripides To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message