Name Server and Web/Email server

[stevek_6]

HI,

I am new to linux and trying to find some help setting up a server at home. Please help ...

1. can I setup a server without a registered Domain Name? I have a no-ip address instead.

2. I don't have a file /etc/named.conf in /etc but there is named.caching-nameserver.conf is it the same?

3. How to setup the name mail server ? is it possible to setup the mail server with the no-ip name?

Please help

Thank you

[falko]

1. can I setup a server without a registered Domain Name? I have a no-ip address instead.Yes.

2. I don't have a file /etc/named.conf in /etc but there is named.caching-nameserver.conf is it the same?Which distribution are you using? What's the output of
updatedb
locate named.conf?

3. How to setup the name mail server ? is it possible to setup the mail server with the no-ip name?

Yes, you can use the no-ip domain. Just point the no-ip domain to your router's public IP address and forward port 25 from your router to your mail server.

[stevek_6]

Thanks for the responce. Can you please tell me the instruction for Q1.

I installed Fedora 7 (I followed exactly the steps in perfect_server_fedora_7 except the ISPConfig) Now I installed the ISPConfig but since then I am not getting the login screen after boot-up. This is a new problem !

the output I get for locate named.conf is:
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/named.conf
/usr/share/doc/bind-9.4.2/sample/etc/named.conf
/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/named.conf
/usr/share/man/man5/named.conf.5.gz
/var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf

for Q3 do i have to setup Dovecot, postfix and or anything else?

thank you

[falko]

If you've used the "Perfect Setup" for Fedora 7, then all you have to do is replace server1.example.com with your no-ip address. That's all. The rest will be done by ISPConfig.

If you cannot access ISPConfig, try to restart it:
/etc/init.d/ispconfig_server restart

[amss]

You Can Config your own DNS Server , then you can config your Mail Server
About DNS , in RHEL 4 or 5 and CentOS 5 , Fedora 7 the Bind installed with Chroot so the named.conf is not in the /etc/ but you copy it from /usr/share/doc/bind-9.4.2/sample/etc/named.conf to the It's New Location /var/named/chroot /etc then you make your zones in /var/named/chroot /var/named
Then You build PowerFull MAil Server (Sendmail or Postfix ,dovocate ,Clamav ,MailScanner , Webmail )