Re: [TCLUG:14628] RE: Napster

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:08:26AM -0600, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote:
> 
> But let me get feedback, and youse guys answer this question as if I were
> a newbie, which is pretty damn close to true in this case:
> 
> Say a guy (or gal) wanted to start from square one, and buy a static IP
> and internet access, so he could do his own teeny little e-mail acct and
> web page server, under his own domain name.
> 
> The person is question is a Linux user, and has between 4 and 6 machines
> available, but isn't much of a networking person (though has plenty of
> deep technical knowledge in other fields -- i.e., at least average
> intelligence.)  So, the tinkering isn't the catch.
> 
> What are the best options, as far as phone/access companies go?  Is this
> person going to have to pay more for ISP access than someone running
> Mac/M$?  (Why are companies allowed to discriminate against customers
> based on *their* ignorance?)  How much a month / set up would this
> run?

	Someone running Linux shouldn't have to pay more.  You should
only need 1 static IP for what you want.  I would recommend DSL.

	In order to put your entire set of Linux boxes on the network
with one static IP, you will need to research something called 'NAT', or
Network Address Translation.

	In order to set up you e-mail server and web server, you will
need to get qmail, and apache.

	For your own domain name, you may have to pay your ISP extra.
In order to gain control over your domain name, you need to register two
servers with Internic.  If you have a static IP, your mail and www
server can be one of them, but the other one should be outside your
network.

I hope that gives you something to start with,
-- 
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