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Hi Chris On 2 Jun 2009, at 10:32, dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi Rich, > > Is it your home connection and do you have a dynamic IP address? If it > is dynamic and if your router supports it, you can resolve a > hostname to > your IP by using DynDNS.com. I use them all the time, your router will > tell DynDNS when/if your ip changes. Though I'm not sure how useful it > is if you intend to run multipal sites. > > As for security, you will need to allow a couple of ports to be open > on > your firewall at the very least, 80 for normal web traffic and 443 for > https. It depends what other services you intend to run on the server. > You can use nmap to port scan your IP address, it's in all the repo's > for Linux and there is a Windows binary available too: > http://nmap.org/download.html > > If you are interested in hosting your websites in an actual data > centre > I can offer you webspace, email chris 'at' openxs.co.uk and I'll set > up > an account you can try out, they come with unlimited everything > (within > reason). > > Here is a quick port scan of the IP address you supplied. > > Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-06-02 10:21 BST > Interesting ports on 87-127-140-184.static.enta.net (87.127.140.184): > Not shown: 972 closed ports > PORT STATE SERVICE > 21/tcp open ftp > 22/tcp open ssh > 25/tcp open smtp > 53/tcp open domain > 80/tcp open http > 88/tcp open kerberos-sec > 106/tcp open pop3pw > 110/tcp open pop3 > 139/tcp open netbios-ssn > 143/tcp open imap > 311/tcp open asip-webadmin > 389/tcp open ldap > 445/tcp open microsoft-ds > 515/tcp open printer > 548/tcp open afp > 625/tcp open apple-xsrvr-admin > 631/tcp open ipp > 749/tcp open kerberos-adm > 2002/tcp open globe > 3659/tcp open unknown > 5222/tcp open unknown > 5269/tcp open unknown > 5900/tcp open vnc > 7777/tcp open unknown > 8008/tcp open unknown > 8086/tcp open unknown > 8087/tcp open unknown > 10000/tcp open snet-sensor-mgmt > > As you can see, there are a few services that could probably be shut > down for a webserver. > > Regards, > > Chris > > On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 14:50 +0100, Brown Richard wrote: >> Hi All >> >> I hope everybody is enjoying our summer at last. Just a quickie. I >> want to point a domain name to an ip address and start to host a web >> site. This will be the first of several sites hosted. What is >> involved >> in building a domain name server please and is it better to simply >> rent some space to do this task please? If so, have you a >> recommendation? >> Thanks for the reply. I already have domain space available for me on shared hosting. What I needed to be able to do is to provide a server for file backups and hosted file maker pro solutions. Hence the mac mini and co-loco. If I need some more server space I'll give you a shout. Thanks. -- Kind regards Rich http://www.cregy.co.uk Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Romans 12 v 1 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html