Nameserver and Mail Server

[shrap]

I would like to run both of these, but have no idea how to do it, I know you need a piece of software, can someone recommmend a good one and easy to use?
I run an Apache Server on Windows XP

 

[n0cmonkey]

My recommendations:
DNS: djbdns or BIND
mail: qmail or postfix

 

[shrap]

"djbdns works only under UNIX. One UNIX flavor, SCO UnixWare, is not supported at this time"
and BIND is for linux I think

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: shrap
"djbdns works only under UNIX. One UNIX flavor, SCO UnixWare, is not supported at this time"
and BIND is for linux I think

BIND is for more than Linux.

If you are set on using Windows for this stuff, look at the DNS server in Windows server editions. That should work fine. For mail, you can fork out money on one of the many Windows products out there, all of which I would never touch so I cannot give you a recommendation 🙂

 

[subflava]

There is a windows port for BIND, but I'm not sure how stable it is. I don't know any windows based mail servers offhand, but you might try Communigate (stalker.com). Probably much better choices out there for a small and free mail server though.

Good resource for reading about server is here

 

[chsh1ca]

For non-complicated stuff, djbdns works well. But if you need to host your own domain server, I'd suggest using bind and looking up the chroot-bind-howto.

Never used postfix in production, so I'd recommend QMail. 🙂

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: chsh1ca
For non-complicated stuff, djbdns works well. But if you need to host your own domain server, I'd suggest using bind and looking up the chroot-bind-howto.

0 known exploits for djbdns
many known exploits for BIND

djbdns isn't bad for production use.

Never used postfix in production, so I'd recommend QMail. 🙂

Postfix works just fine 😉

 

[shrap]

found this:

http://www.jhsoft.com

seems like it does what I want, going to try it out.

 

[shrap]

ok heres the story...
I made a website for my friends band...
he registered a domain name www.defiledbyinfidels.com for $6.95
and when u go to that site, it shows my servers ip, I want it to constantly show the dns, even if its www.deifledbyinfidels.com/band.html for example...
but in the control panel there is no option to do this... so i thought i would run my own dns server and this would be fixed, but it still does that...
i added by dns server as the first server on the name server list in the control panel...
they also don't forward email addresses, so im going to have to run my own email server...
unless there is another way around it...

can someone help me out? :/
aol instant messanger name: mus74ng
mirc: ]Syn[PissedOffShrapTheGreatCat on irc.gamesnet.net

 

[n0cmonkey]

In your httpd.conf:

ServerName www.defiledbyinfidels.com

 

[reicherb]

It sounds like 1 of 2 things is happening. Either you?re trying to access the site by IP address and thus the address is showing in the address windows, or, more likely, you've got the register set up to redirect people trying to access the site to your server rather than having them make a DNS entry that allows people to resolve your domain name to your IP address.