If you are looking for a "dns for dummies" as you say, I'd suggest that you use a free dns service until you learn BIND, djbdns, or one of the other available dns servers.
Free services are at: www.everydns.net www.granitecanyon.com. They have web interfaces and will allow you to run your website from home without knowing all the details of dns. Then take some time to load up dns on your box and get it right (run bind chrooted, etc.). You can continue to use the free services as secondary dns servers for redundancy. On Sendmail, I also recommend the O'Reily bat book, but I second Al's comment about searching for alternative MTAs. If you are unfamiliar with sendmail configuration, please be careful to check your server after any change to make sure it does not relay. There is a good test at: telnet://relay-test.mail-abuse.org (see http://mail-abuse.org/tsi/ar-test.html) for details. Another option along the "sendmail for dummies" path would be to set up email forwading from your registrar if they support it (or transfer your domain to one of the registrars that does email forwarding). That will get your site moved to your home computer faster and allow you time to learn the specifics of sendmail and dns before you open your box up to the world. mjb On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 19:37, Thomas E. Dukes wrote: > Thanks, > > Have already looked at those 2 sites -- not much help if you aren't a > PHD. > > Looking for more of a DNS for Dummies or Sendamil for Dummies > > Palmetto Shopper > http://www.palmettoshopper.com > Serving all of South Carolina and beyond! > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Al Sparks > Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 8:55 PM > To: Redhat List > Subject: Re: Help with DNS & Sendmail > > > Both subjects are covered in depth by books put out by O'Reilly. > http://www.oreilly.com > > It's dry reading, but you can also download the sendmail source and > start reading the docs in there. Sendmail's web site also has those > docs. > > Same with BIND (assuming you're looking at BIND to provide DNS services; > you don't have to use BIND for DNS anymore than you have to use sendmail > as an mail transfer agent (MTA). > > So, try the websites, > http://www.sendmail.org > for sendmail, and > http://www.isc.org > for BIND. > > I also recommend doing a google, "alternatives to sendmail" and > "alternatives to BIND". > === Al > > --- "Thomas E. Dukes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > H E L P ! > > > > I'm trying to setup my RH 8.0 system at home so that I can move my > > hosted website here. I have been reading HOW-TO's but they are old. > > > > I'm trying to use webmin to do this but it lacks 'help' features. > > > > Can someone point me to some good docs on these subjects? > > > > TIA > > > > Palmetto Shopper > > http://www.palmettoshopper.com > > Serving all of South Carolina and beyond! > > > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Mark Johnson-Barbier
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