From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 00:52:09 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 81A1816A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:52:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DFCD43D49 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:52:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rlurman@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a41so482478rng for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:52:08 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JxdHTQVb7ZRLLJn9XieMvXbr2HooMp7IC+HG8ezrbsUiHbffJJQenrr1tEg02s/MOaLTKs4n5UDg1iRBcX2y0AMwtjAlL6puK81unCoEBIYcbE1hpL+suQxy8vy5bMe4tDATJ5jc+X8vKB5Psjelc7IokD4b+v6xilGV7oTig+g= Received: by 10.38.73.33 with SMTP id v33mr22891rna; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:52:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.149.30 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:52:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:52:08 -0500 From: RL To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Setting up own domain and mailserver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: RL List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:52:09 -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? Thanks. Again, this stuff just confuses the heck out of me.