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home hosted domain name? is this possable?

I am using an old pc to host a web site, it is currently using a free service on dyndns.org to let people just type in the name into the browser

Is it possable to get a "www.<my_domain_name>.com" for free by hosting the WHOLE thing at home?

i have bind installed

Is this all i need?

check my topic - it works fine for me.

Well, it still isnt working, here are my files (censored)

named.conf

Code:

options {

        directory "/var/named";

        /*

        * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want

        * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source

        * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked

        * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged

        * port by default.

        */

        // query-source address * port 53;

};



// 

// a caching only nameserver config

// 

zone "." IN {

        type hint;

        file "caching-example/named.ca";

};



zone "domain.com" {

type master;

file "domain.com.zone";

allow-update { none; };

allow-transfer { 111.111.111.111; };

notify yes;

};

domain.com.zone:

Code:

$TTL 86400

$ORIGIN domain.com.

@ IN SOA domain.com postmaster.domain.com. (

20051217 ; serial (R. Hawdon)

8640 ; refresh

3600 ; retry

3600000 ; expiry

1209600 ) ; min

IN NS ns1.domain.com.

IN NS ns2.domain.com.

IN MX 10 domain.com.

IN MX 10 mail.domain.com

@ IN A 111.111.111.111

www IN A 111.111.111.111

ns1 IN A 111.111.111.111

ns2 IN A 111.111.111.111

ftp IN A 111.111.111.111

mail IN A 111.111.111.111

pop IN A 111.111.111.111

stmp IN A 111.111.111.111

what am i missing?

I assum that u started named. If u didnt u should do that (in slackware can be done by command /etc/rc.d/rc.bind strat )

To verify type ps ax|grep bind
that should show u something like this:
762 ? S 0:02 /usr/sbin/named

If it's done, we need to check where ur domain is parked.
I assume that u have bought one. Let's call it domain.com.

Im not sure how it is in England but I have kind of web panel where I can ask for registring DNS servers for mydomain (ns1.domain.com, ns2.domain.com)
U need to do that's as well.

Since moment when this will be done u need to wait for refresh time - this is set in named.conf file.
...and thats it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by czezz

I assume that u have bought one. Let's call it domain.com.

I thought thats what BIND was ment to do!

You cannot get a domain name for free. When you type
www.anyname.com into your browser the browser looks up
the ip address for the domain name this will only succeed
if you have an official domain registered with one of the
official domain registries. If you have done this then
there are still problems.
1. If you connect to the internet through a DSL modem or
router then you need to connect the IP address of the
router to your domain name. Unfortunately the IP address
assigned by you ISP may change from time to time unless
you arrange with them to have a static address provided.

:)

To add to my previous reply, your home site will also be
slow to access since ordinary connection to the net have
an upload speed that is 10 times slower than the
download speed but if you can live with this and solve
the other problems then you can do it.

:)