Topic: Help - Newbie Confused about Domains!

[Norrie]

Hello Everyone.

I'm currently experimenting with e-smith as my home network server / gateway.  I'm slightly confused about the domain setup.

During the configuration stage 5.7...

"Configuring Your System Name and Domain Name

As shown below, your next step is to enter the primary domain name that will be associated with your e-smith server and gateway.
(You can later configure other virtual domains that work with the server.)"

The configuration asks for a "real" Domain to use as default.  I have a domain registered but not hosted.  The emails for the domain are diverted to one free POP account ie "everything@mydomain.xxx".

Can I enter any Domain at this stage?

What exactly does "real" mean?  Does it mean an internet domain that actually exists?

I'd just like to use a fictional domain for the purposes of distributing mail (internally) from the above account and don't want anything on the server or local net to be visible on the internet.

Help!

Thanks in advance

Norrie

[Alejandro]

Norrie:
You are almost there,
you could assign your registered FQDN (full quallified domain name)
to your e-smith box, even if it'is not hosted yet, cause you will be hosting it at home,
you can leave your pop mail system as it is now,
e-smith makes visible to the web just what you allow,  so...
questions could be..:
Do you want to host your personal web server at home and keep a web page on your server?
you could do that easy...

Do you want to receive mail on your own server without intermediates?
you can do that too

do you want to keep your server and lan safe from the outside world?
e-smith do that pretty good at the moment!

Your domain name should be
yourdomain.ext (com, net, ....etc,)
and if anybody writes www.yourdomain.ext at his browser he will not see anything untill you point your registered name to your ip with any kind of dns service (take a look to www.dns2go.com)

so... from now on... it is all up to you!
alejandro.

[Norrie]

Hi Alejandro,

Thank you very much for your reply.

Subject: [e-smith General Discussion] Re: Help - Newbie Confused
about Domains!


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> Norrie:
> You are almost there,
> you could assign your registered FQDN (full quallified domain
name)
> to your e-smith box, even if it'is not hosted yet, cause you will
be hosting
> it at home,
> you can leave your pop mail system as it is now,
> e-smith makes visible to the web just what you allow,  so...
> questions could be..:
> Do you want to host your personal web server at home and keep a
web page on
> your server?
> you could do that easy...

No.  At least not until our village gets ADSL or something similar.
  I have (uk) ISDN (that's another story).
I pay the company I registered the domain with, for full web
diversion to my free ISP web space but there's nothing there at the
moment.

>
> Do you want to receive mail on your own server without
intermediates?
> you can do that too
>

I don't think so.  Would that mean running a mail server that's
visible to the net?  I'd be happy at the moment if I could filter
all mail form one (free) POP3 account to local IMAP or POP3
mailboxes on the e-smith server.

    eg. name1(2,3...n)@freepop3.com to
         name1@e-smith-mail-account, name2@e-smith-mail-account,
name3@e-smith-mail-account.... namen@e-smith-mail-account etc.

Does that seem ok?

> do you want to keep your server and lan safe from the outside
world?
> e-smith do that pretty good at the moment!

Yes!

> Your domain name should be
> yourdomain.ext (com, net, ....etc,)
> and if anybody writes www.yourdomain.ext at his browser he will
not see
> anything untill you point your registered name to your ip with any
kind of
> dns service (take a look to www.dns2go.com)
>
> so... from now on... it is all up to you!
> alejandro.

Thanks again!

Norrie
8o)