Domain, DNS is it possible

Kaiser_Sose · 02-09-2002, 05:14 PM

Hello:

I will describe my setup first so it will be easier to help me. I have a small LAN of three computer sharing a cable service in which I have a static IP. I have a Netgear router and port forwarding has already been set up. I have one Win XP, 98 SE, and a Redhat 7.2 computer. Each one has its own LAN IP of 192.168.x.x

I installed Redhat 7.2 server install. After that I installed PHP, mysql, phpmyadmin and everything is working great. I can access my web server across the LAN by doing http://192.168.X.X/ and the Apache test page shows up. I installed phpbb2 and I can access that as well across the LAN by going http://192.168.X.X/forum/ . I also use one of those free DNS forwarders so others as well can access the web server. I use the one at www.dyn.ca , so friends from the outside can do http://username.dyn.ca/forum/ and they can get my web server.

I would love to be able to have a full domain resolve to my web server. I would love to have a registered domain as in www.mydomain.com point to here. I think this involves setting up BIND, DNS, SENDMAIL (which is installed but not configured), but I don't know how

Can someone guide me and tell me what is involved in doing this

Thanks kindly

crabboy · 02-09-2002, 11:10 PM

I gave my opinion on a similar issue a couple days ago. As I suggested in the other post, if you register a name you can probably have your registrar's DNS server do the work for you. Much easier, more secure than running bind yourself and more reliable.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&highlight=DNS