> -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rodolfo J. Paiz > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:32 AM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: pop won't authenticate my password > > > At 04:13 2/5/2004, you wrote: > >Thanks so much, Rodolfo. I had kept the reference to your excellent > >site http://www.simpaticus.com/linux, of course, and I had > planned to > >go back to it if I couldn't get everything working first by > doing what > >Ben had suggested. I guess I'll just have to go back and read > >everything carefully and learn by trial and error--it won't be the > >first time. > > It really sounds like you have no DNS for your zone and you > need one, and > that this may be the extent of your problem. Try approaching > it from the > angle that you want to install your own DNS server (or, if > you want to try > it, I'll be happy to set up mccorduck.ws on my DNS server for testing > purposes). Check the "DNS First Steps" doc to get an idea of > the terms and > concepts, then read the DNS-HOWTO at TLDP... that should do you right. > > As I said, I'll be happy to test-drive the zone myself if you > like. Then, > if that solves the problem, you can just copy my zonefile to > your server > and you're done. :-) > > > -- > Rodolfo J. Paiz > rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.simpaticus.com Hi Rodolfo, As I'm doing more research into the whole issue, it seems you may be right. The main clue was Ben's posts from a while ago where he suggested >2) run a nameserver (most likely BIND) on your machine and in another he said to tell WorldSite.ws to make >1) worldsite.ws be the primary nameserver for mccorduck.ws and >2) Put these entries in for my domain > >mccorduck.ws IN A 24.24.15.155 > >24.24.15.155 IN PTR mccorduck.ws > >www.mccorduck.ws IN CNAME mccorduck.ws > >@ IN MX mccorduck.ws But then when WorldSite.ws refused to do the latter and you suggested I needed a DNS "zone" (and even made your kind offer to set up a test one for me, which I really appreciate), it made me look more into BIND, starting with figuring out what the hell that was. Well, chapter 12 of the _Red Hat Linux [9] Reference Guide_ answered that question, i.e. it's the "Berkeley Internet Name Domain" application. (Or is it more properly called a "daemon"? Ah, the despair of the poor, dazed newbie.) I also discovered that I apparently don't have BIND on my machine since I didn't have two basic things that according to the _Reference Guide_ ought to be there, namely the /etc/named.conf file and the /var/named directory. I'm not worried about that because I assume I can just download BIND from the Red Hat FTP site as I've downloaded many other things from there already (using the fantastic gFTP program/application/daemon), but I'm confused; if I don't have BIND, how is it that my domain name mccorduck.ws is clearly bound to my IP address 24.24.15.155 in that any time anyone points his/her browser to http://McCorduck.ws he or she will go to my Web site which is hosted on my Linux machine (through httpd)? I vaguely remember a configuration file for httpd in which I might have put my domain name, but maybe in the fog of my confusion I'm just imagining this, too. But if I'm not and I do go ahead and download and install BIND and configure it in the ways that Ben and the _Reference Guide_ tell me to, will everything still work, that is, besides finally being able to receive e-mail sent to an @mccorduck.ws address, will Web browser inquiries to (www.)McCorduck.ws still go to my Web server on my Linux box? It would seem so based on Ben's directions above, but I have a long history of screwing things up on my computers whenever I try anything new. Sorry for these questions, some of which might seem pretty insipid. About the only thing I've ever found to be more confusing and draining than this is doing anything with Windows networking! Ed McCorduck Department of English State University of New York College at Cortland ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mccorduck.cortland.edu http://McCorduck.ws -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
