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gooseme : 29/07/02 04:41 PM : Incident created -   Hi I hosted my own website in Windows and even hosted for a few other people for about a year using TZO.com as my DNS server. This was quite some time ago. Then, many ISP's began blocking inbound port 80. Now, nearly all of them have port 80 blocked. I personally think it was just a greed-motivated tactic so that they could sell "business accounts" but that's just MHO. Anyway, I've already copied my website to "var/www/html" on my Mandrake Linux box and am able to bring it up in my browser by typing "http://127.0.0.1". What I would like to do now is to make it public using TZO's DNS server again (and their relaying service to re-route to another port). I'm wondering though...is there some way of setting up my OWN DNS server on Linux and how would I go about doing this?. Could I set up my own relaying server too so I can bypass port 80?. Is there any way at all to get around the port 80 block?. Or let me ask it another way...is there ANY way at all that I can host my own website?
Linegod_7611 : 30/07/02 08:21 AM : Reply received -   Yes, Mandrake Linux comes with Bind, which would allow you to run your own DNS, and you could use the 'redir' command to redirect ports. BUT, you have to have your own registered domain name to redirect to. Without that, you are better off using a service like http://www.dyndns.org ------ Note: If this answer resolves your problem, please remember to close this incident.
gooseme : 30/07/02 01:07 PM : More info provided -   Hi Yes, I had my own domain for about 6 years now. Ok, now is there a GUI frontend for BIND in Linux Mandrake and how do I access it?. Also, same question with the 'redir' thing...is there a gui/frontend?. Thank's again for the reply!
dufour : 31/07/02 06:40 PM : Reply received -   A GUI for BIND, use webmin. Check if the package is installed (with software manager) and started. Then, simply connect to this url from your box : https://localhost:10000 Webmin can also configure a lots of other think... Take a look... If that helped, please close the incident... Thanks.
gooseme : 01/08/02 06:55 AM : More info provided -   Hi I type "https://localhost:10000" into my browser but it redirects me to a Netscape search page. I have webmin (or whatever it's called) installed.
dufour : 02/08/02 09:41 AM : Reply received -   Try to replace localhost by 127.0.0.1 https://127.0.0.1:10000
gooseme : 02/08/02 01:13 PM : Incident closed -   After I upgraded to KDE 3.0.2 and installed a bunch of libraries, webmin worked great!. It's really remarkable how much stuff is in webmin. Pretty cool:)

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