RE: Choosing private domain name
If you want an inexpensive domain name, go to http://www.nic.cx for .cx
(Christmas Island) domains. They will do mail forwarding and web site
redirection. (This is not intended as an advertisement, please don't bill me
$1999).
Brooks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joachim Trinkwitz [mailto:jtr@uni-bonn.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 3:10 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Choosing private domain name
>
>
> Hi,
>
> some time ago, I had a private domain name (in-bonn.de) for my
> stand-alone PC with dialup connection and one of the numeric
> IP-adddresses, which are reserved for this purpose.
>
> As some ftp servers on the net won't let me access them (among others
> the german CTAN, ftp.dante.de -- german ftpp admins seems to be more
> picky about this) because not finding my domain in DNS, so I changed
> my domain name to that of my university. ftp access worked since then.
>
> The problem was then, that I couldn't manage to configure any of the
> many MTAs (exim, sendmail, qmail) to accept mail for the domain
> uni-bonn.de. All of them wanted to see users with this domain name in
> their address as local, so the mail was rejected or vanished without
> even to show up in the spool.
>
> So which is the normal way to choose a local domain name for a stand
> alone PC? Any way to come out of this absurd situation?
>
> Thanks for your answers,
> joachim
>
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