Setting up a server from scratch

[Adrian Goins]

and fix your from address.  mail to that address bounces because it is in an
improper format.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	UCSC Student [SMTP:"UCSC Student"@cats.ucsc.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, November 09, 1999 7:53 PM
> To:	comp-protocols-dns-bind at uunet.uu.net
> Subject:	Setting up a server from scratch
> 
> I haven't done any web-server or DNS work before and would appreciate it
> if someone could tell me how to go about setting up a site.
> 
> When I register for a domain at Network Solutions, lets say "abcd.com",
> what do I put in for the various addresses (administration, technical,
> billing)?  I plan to host the site on my computer in my college dorm
> room.  How do I make sure that the database has my IP address associated
> with abcd.com?  Can I change this later?  I read about people setting up
> primary and secondary DNS servers.  Do I need to do this?
> 
> A question about subdomains.  How do I set up a subdomain
> (food.abcd.com)?  Do all domain names ending with "abcd.com"
> automatically reach my webserver?  I am worried about this because when
> I tried going to asdflkj.yahoo.com, I didn't get an error from Yahoo's
> web server but instead I got a host not found error.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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