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| ChrisDfer 2003-04-16, 4:08 pm |
| Well almost I actually just need to clear some stuff up first before I can put up my www.picturesofchrisdfernude.com website. Ok I have a static IP(well not really but am looking into getting one) and I also have pictureofchrisdfernude.com registered to me, Now the register wants me to enter in a nameserver to point to. Hmm, what nameserver do I point it to? Could I setup my own nameserver? And if I do that(which I would think would be a nice challenge and learning exper) how do I let everyone know about my nameserver? Since the domain register seems to want a dns name for the namserver and not an IP address. I asked an instructor of mine about this awhile ago but I dont think he knew he kept on changing the subject about how illegal software is bad and agaisnt the law(don't ask me why he assumed I was trying to host a warez site, I even offered to show him the pictures I was gonna be hosting) Anyways can someone kind of clear up how this whole process works when you are hosting on your systems and want have domain name point to it. | |
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| 1. host it at a webhosting company for 3 bucks/month. make the page, then point all files to your computer by ip. ie. www.yoursite.com, to download warez-game1.iso, you have a link at your page for x.x.x.x./warezfile1.iso etc.
2. call your provider and have them add the entry into their dns, so at their dns server, they will have a record that www.yoursite.com = your ip. then go to registrar and change the name server to the name server of your provider
3. your solution, build your name server. go to www.microsoft.com/technet and search for *DNS*, read the first link or so, about DNS architecture. go buy the book by oreiley about BIND. or read search dns on google, should be plenty of return on its archtiecture. after reading some, y ou should undrestand how to go about it. learn right?
pratical vs theories... your solution require to build a dns server for 1 site... or atmost, you register 100 more domain names... then there is the security concern... which yes, more learning opportunities for you. yay! | |
| ChrisDfer 2003-04-16, 5:27 pm |
| Thanks for the reply. I am currently using solution #1 for a different website which is working good but wanted to try somthing else to learn. Ok this subject is actually more clear to me now it was always kind of blurry area for me. I in fact have the O' Reily BIND book sitting on my book shelf. Bought it real cheap thinking someday I might be able to use it. Think I will crack it open and see what it has to say. | |
| mindmesh 2003-04-16, 7:48 pm |
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how do I let everyone know about my nameserver?
Doesn't really matter.. The only people that need to know about your DNS server are the GTLD servers.. You'll have to put NS records for your name server on your name server and use the corresponding IP.. You may want to pay someone to do some secondary DNS so that if your DNS server is down people can still access your site.
PS.. dude I'm almost embarrassed that I came in her with the title on this thread... KEEP YOUR CLOTHES ON..  | |
| ccieToBe 2003-04-17, 10:33 pm |
| There are a lot of DNS services out there. Before I setup my own name servers I used www.everydns.net, which is free. Setting up your own would be a nice learning experience, but don't do this until you get a static IP. You could also do what Mikop mentioned and get an inexpensive web host for your domain name, then point all the large files to the web server at your own IP address. | |
| ChrisDfer 2003-04-18, 3:28 am |
| Yeah I have a webhost that I use for my email and for my website but I want to get more involved in whats going on. Just curious on the details of how it usally is done and what exactly is involved. | |
| ccieToBe 2003-04-19, 4:10 am |
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Originally posted by ChrisDfer
Yeah I have a webhost that I use for my email and for my website but I want to get more involved in whats going on. Just curious on the details of how it usally is done and what exactly is involved.
Buy O'Reilly's DNS and BIND. IMO that's the book to have on DNS, even if you're not running BIND. I'm running djbdns, and use this book whenever I have a conceptual question.
IMO DNS servers are generally much more complicated to setup then web servers. If you'd like to setup an Apache web server, just go to apache.org and follow the directions linked to from that site. If you want to go with IIS, get ready to apply new security patchs constantly  | |
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| oh common with the patches...
it's not like linux apps/services does not have patches... it is just never publicized like those of microsoft.
why? media bias... but anyway
we heard of every insignificant patches from microsoft, what about the sendmail vulnearbilities and its patch a month ago? no one ever heard of them... except those who manage sendmail servers.
it is simply not sexy enough for news media to report those... while anything about microsoft is elevated to crisis state and worthy of pages after pages of coverage.
this is not to say that microsoft is without fault or is in anyway good, but this misconception that anything linux is without vulnerability or require patching is just rediculous and dangerous to new admin by providing them with a false sense of security.
http://www.apacheweek.com/features/security-20
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/b...pache+httpd-2.0
http://search.cert.org/query.html?r...ecimp&qt=apache | |
| ccieToBe 2003-04-19, 5:21 am |
| Actually, Linux isn't my prefered platform. Nearly all of my servers run either FreeBSD or OpenBSD, and whenever I setup a new one, I use OpenBSD if possible. Take a look at OpenBSD's home page and you'll the main reason why:
"Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 7 years!"
That sounds pretty impressive to me. OpenBSD is also rock solid and can fit on a 32MB compact flash card with plenty of room to spare.
I don't care much for sendmail either. Again, mostly because of security issues. The same goes for BIND. Postfix, qmail and djbdns all have great security records.
Also take a look at Netcraft's list of web servers with the highest uptime. Notice what 2 OSs the top 24 run.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html | |
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| 1st. there is no question regarding the choice of various bsd as the platform of choice.
however, uptime is a joke. any decent site would enforce a periodic system maintainance.
look at that list of sites... yay, mortage companies? berg.com? haha come on.
I am sure even a win ME can stay up that long... does that mean ME is any better?
sure my argument does not fly because we are talking about bsd, which while I like, a friend of mine, berkeley EE graduate, cisco software engineer, absolutely swear to and I have no reason to question that, but I think this is just another example of how data can be manipulated to show more/less base on intents.
anyway, back to my original objection which is based on application and choice of platform. the decision needs to be informed and not just based on blanket statements. no matter what platform one works on, even on bsd, you need to be deligent in your configuration, be kept up to date with the latest security advisery. it is never as simple as apache > iis. if it is that easy, iis won't have that significant of marketshare because there is still plenty of well informed experienced administrator who chose IIS as their platform of choice and do well at it.
edit: just to be fair, I also want to state (question) the accuracy of IIS marketshare. IIS is too easy to install, every gimp who don't know much except microsoft can install it. it may sit there and do nothing but still count as a IIS on the net where as generally ppl who actually goes thru the trouble of putting apache has a goal and put their web server to actual work. I mean... personal web server, click IIS etc etc doesn't really mean much in that regard... just another data to be manipulated.
most requested site
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/requested.html
this kind of offer another perspective on what is the platform of choice heh?  I mean... if anything, this is more relevant as these are sites ppl actually use with heavy traffic and demand... and they chose these.
by my count,
linux - 21
microsoft -16
bsd - 5
solaris - 5
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| ccieToBe 2003-04-19, 3:08 pm |
| If there are no security patches or hardware failures that require a reboot, then why would you? I have a few BSD servers that have around a year of uptime - a few months less then the amount of time that I've been seriously using these OSs.
Try setting up Windows ME as a publicly accessible web server. I'd be impressed if you got six months of uptime.
There's no argument that there are many aspects to consider when choosing a platform. IMO, security should be a very important one though.
It's interesting to see the most requested site figures. I was expecting Linux and Windows to be numbers one and two. What suprises me is that Solaris's number is as high as it is and BSD's isn't a little higher. Solaris is a great OS. I'm just a little suprised by this as I don't run across that many Sun boxes. | |
| ChrisDfer 2003-04-19, 4:23 pm |
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Originally posted by ccieToBe
Buy O'Reilly's DNS and BIND. IMO that's the book to have on DNS, even if you're not running BIND. I'm running djbdns, and use this book whenever I have a conceptual question.
IMO DNS servers are generally much more complicated to setup then web servers. If you'd like to setup an Apache web server, just go to apache.org and follow the directions linked to from that site. If you want to go with IIS, get ready to apply new security patchs constantly
Yeah I have had an apache webserver up and running for awhile now. I use it for playing around with PHP and MySQL since its alot easier to update a file locally then on some server somewhere. | |
| ChrisDfer 2003-04-19, 6:26 pm |
| Wow, 224 views. So that many people wanna see me nude. Maybe I should become a cam-whore. | |
| anchor40 2003-04-22, 12:14 pm |
| Then again, maybe we just like to see your little logo dance!
You could also use a dynamic DNS service. There are quite a few freebies out there - a very small client is installed on your PC and it checks the IP address you've been assigned and updates the mother ship so anyone pointing to your URL will find their way to your, in this case, birthday-suit.
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