Hi, Does anyone know of any services in the UK that provide dynamic dns for a domain name? eg. www.new-noise.org The only problem is that I would still like to keep e-mail for this, perhaps through a POP server, or having it forwarded to another address. I hope that I explained that well enough. Thanks, Double_c
http://www.dnsexit.com There US based but their dynanic dns services are free for all domains, you just have to change the nameservers on your domain. Have used them for about 1 1/2 years and can't remember it going down ever would fully recommend them, especially seeing as its free. Not quite sure what your mean with the email front, if you have an email server then you just put its address in the mx section with a prority of 5.
Thanks for the link! What I mean is that I want to be able to recieve e-mail sent to an address like mail(at)new-noise.org in outlook express. I have an SMTP server set up for outgoing mail and that works fine, but I need a POP server for incoming. Either that or a free POP server I could set up on the same machine. Thanks, Double_c
First things first, a pop3 server only allows a user to access thier mail it does not do anything with the sending and recieving of mail, this is done by the smtp (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol incase you wondered) server. What OS and Webserver are you using?, and what program is running the smtp server, if you've uses iis for the smtp then this is going to have to go in favour of a complete mail server package. Eg: http://www.pmail.com/
Thanks for the answer. Are you saying that to recieve e-mails I don't need a POP3 server? I have a win2k webserver running IIS web and SMTP. I would rather keep IIS as it took a while to set up. If what you're saying is that IIS SMTP can handle incoming mail then can you show me a guide on how to set this up? I'm a total n00b when it comes to mail servers etc. and any tutorials or guides (that work) are welcome! Do I just have to put an MX record in for my SMTP server and it'll work? Sorry for all the questions! Double_c
Yes, you don't need a pop3 server to recieve mail as it only allows users to access mail stored on a mail server, nothing more. And i'm afraid that even though the IIS smtp server took along time to setup, it has to go, to my knowledge the IIS 5 smtp server can only server mail, not receive it, its a different story with windows server 2k3 and iis 6 but that gets really complicated and isn't that good so I won't get into that. What your going to need to do is stop the iis smtp server (don't remove it yet) and install pegasus mail (http://www.pmail.com/) to replace it, so download it and install it. Its probably the best free mailserver you can get (this side of linux anyway) but they seem to want you to pay for manuals but there is a guide here http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/network/pmail/ that should help you, this setup will allow you to perform full 2-way mail but make sure you secure the smtp server so your not an open relay. I've never used pegasus mail before, all the windows mail servers i've used costed a ****load of money and i'm now using linux mostly, but i'll take a crack at any problem you get.
I've taken a look at that pegasus mail site, and it looks like your machine needs to be on the same network as the server. Is this true? Because my server is on a different network and I wouldn't like to VPN them together (security).
You've lost me here, I was presuming that this is a machine that you have setup at home, is this being hosted by a hosting company? If so then their is little you can do as it is their machine and they choose what they setup. If this is your machine at home then how is this setup network wise?
Sorry for the crap explanation. I'll try to give a better one. Here goes. At home we have an ADSL line fed into a Smoothwall. (firewall on old comp) The Smoothwall has three networks on it: Red: Internet (ADSL, ISDN, modem etc.) Green: Your computer(s) Orange: DMZ (De-Millitarised Zone) for webservers etc. The Green network is protected from the big bad world of portscans, ping attack thingies, worm propigation attempts etc. and is virtually invinsible. The Orange network is similar to the Green, except that it is less protected. For example on the Green incoming requests on *all* ports are blocked, but on the Orange incoming traffic is allowed on ports 80, 25, and other commonly used ports. This is where we have our webserver. Also, for security reasons, Orange->Green traffic is not allowed. So, yes it is at home, no it is not at a hosting company, and I can do what I want to it (within reason, as my mum's company's site is hosted there).
Ok, got you now. Firstly it shouldn't be a problem with having the server on the dmz so I say just wack it on there and set it up. I can't see why it wouldn't work as I can't see a reason why it needs to be in the local network. Also have you got a firewall on the server blocking the ports you aren't using or are they blocked on the smoothie, as for all the routers that i've used the dmz has been totally unprotected and all incoming requests were send their which could cause problems with a windows server considering all the possible exploits, generally I put a don't put a server like this in the dmz and just use port forwarding to forward the ports i'm using.
OK, thanks for that! I'll give p-mail a go tomorrow. The ports are blocked on the smoothie. I hate software firewalls with a passion.
