Need help hosting my domain...

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Hello,

First off, I am really new at this... :OO

I would like to host my domain myself on a small FreeBSD server at home.
I am using 8.0-RELEASE.

I have a domain name registered, and I have a static IP address from my ISP provider.

I have set up the server with the static IP address and I can ping it from "outside".
I need name servers to be able to resolve my domain name to my IP address.
This server is isolated from the rest of my network, so I am not worried about hackers getting through it.

Now as I understand it, I need to set up a DNS server, but I do not know what kind of DNS server I should set up to resolve my domain name. I have tried setting up an Authoritative only DNS server and this has not worked so far. I'm not even sure if I have set it up properly.

But, before I get into the details of the named.conf and my zone file(s), I would like to know if I have approached this correctly?
Should I be using a different DNS server configuration?

Any advice will be appreciated.

Best regards

Sandi
 
No, they do not have that option. That is why I am going this route....

I have gone through the link you posted, but I can not figure out how exactly I should configure BIND to serve my domain to my ISP DNS servers...

I need to get this up and running soon as I need to have an email address with this domain name. I have no need for a web page right now, so I do not want to pay some company to host my domain for me.

Guess I am going to have to learn fast... :stud
 
Dns server is over kill in most cases. Just use the /etc/hosts file to define your hosts on that PC and any PC's behind it on a LAN.
 
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