i recall a fairly large isp, can't remember which one, running their mailserver on a 486 DX. cant remember what distro it was could have even been a BSD but im not entirely sure i dont see why you couldnt do it though
Tom "if you want an image of the future, just picture a boot stamping on the human face - forever" George Orwell ----- Original Message ----- From: "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 8:33 AM Subject: Re: bind9 and ipv6 > Kevin Coyner said: > > > > > named[2387]: IPv6 structures in kernel and user space do not match > > named[2387]: IPv6 support is disabled > > named[2387]: no IPv6 interfaces found > > > > I have the IPv6 module compiled in my kernel, and I'm using 2.2.20. > > > > Are these startup references to IPv6 simply safe to ignore? > > if you don't need BIND to listen on any IPv6 interfaces, or if your > not using IPv6 at all then yes it should be safe to ignore, it's > just telling you it can't find all the things it needs to support > IPv6 so it won't use it, no harm done. > > > > > > One more question: I've set this up as a caching server. However, can I > > add a master zone for the machines in my LAN, even though I don't have a > > FQDN? I read the following article ... > > you can do anything you want, nobody else in the world will know > unless they go out of their way to query your name server. if you > took say debian.org as your domain at home, that won't affect the > 'real' debian.org since the "internet" has this domain "registered" > to a few specific nameservers and other domain name servers know to > query those registered servers to recieve data for that domain. > > for a while on my network I had a domain named 'aphro'. Just plain > old aphro, no aphro.com no aphro.org just aphro. my gateway was > gateway.aphro, my desktop was aphro.aphro . about a year ago I decided > to duplicate aphroland.org(my main domain) on my internal network, so > I actually have 2 copies of this domain(if I add a new host I have > to add it in 2 files and restart 2 copies of bind). So my internal > domain names work fine internally but do not resolve externally. > > For a bit more security, if your planning on running BIND on your > gateway/firewall machine I would reccomend you firewall it as well > as have it only listen on your internal interface(s). Theres no real > reason to provide the world access to your nameserver if your not > serving authoratative data to anyone. I am not sure how this is > done in BIND v9, I have only used BIND v8. Also I reccomend of course > running BIND as a non-root uid/gid and in chroot(). This may require > some additional setup especially for the chroot(). > > nate > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]