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Installing a Domain Zone Page
by Janis Kracht, 1:261/38, janis@filegate.net
This link,
http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/fr_index.html?/main/sbs-zoneedit
-registration.html
(wraps!) has to be about the best one I've seen for the steps
necesary to create a zone, or just update one on zoneedit.com...
Zoneedit.com is a commercial DNS service that will allow you to use
their nameservers for up to 5 domain names for FREE. If would like
to use their nameservers for more than 5 domain names, you have to
pay. Because zoneedit.com provides DNS service for free, you can
imagine how popular this site is. I think I first began useing
Zoneedit when I first switched from another free-dns service
sometime in 1995. That previous one folded.. zoneedit has been
going strong all this time though.
I don't have to change my zone pages often, but now and again it's
necessary. When that happens, I'll think, how did I do THAT before
:)
I've had to revamp my zone pages for filegate.net three times,
IIRC, but finding this link sure would have made it easier for me
when I had to make the changes.
The process is really pretty simple if you follow the text at the
site above.. essentially, you pay for a domain name, you go to
zoneedit.com, and then you click on "Free Sign Up" to create an
account. That will allow you up to 5 domains.. you may be like me,
and just use one, so you fill out the info form as displayed at
zoneedit.com (just as the dslwebserver.com link above shows you.)
Once you've signed up for account on zoneedit, you'll get an email
with your user name, password, and other information. Log back
into Zoneedit.com with this information, and then click on "Add
Zones". You'll see the offer of 5 free zones. Enter the domain
name you want to create a zone for.. (or you an use the "bulk
loader" screen to add multiple domain names).
Then you'll get a warning stating that you have to tell your dns
provider the new Primary and Secondary name servers that
zoneedit.com has assigned you. I.e, contact your registrar (the
people from whom you purchased this domain name) and tell them to
change its nameservers to the displayed nameservers, which will
look something like:
filegate.net NS17.ZONEEDIT.COM
filegate.net NS13.ZONEEDIT.COM
Once you get the name servers updated on your registar, your site
will be live :)
This webpage at
http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/fr_index.html?
/main/sbs-zoneedit-registration.html
(wraps)
goes on to explain how to setup your MX records, CMames and aliases
(like ftp.filegate.net). Great site :)
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Fidonet Mailers 101 - What you need to know...
By Janis Kracht, 1:261/38, janis@filegate.net
Basically, Fidonet uses two or three type mailers
1. ArcMail Attach Mailers
Frontdoor type mailers are called arcmail attach mailers.. this
is because netmail messages are used to transport archives of say
netmail or echomail, as "attaches" to the netmail message. Every
time you create a packet, a netmail message is created with an
attach for your packet, for instance:
Packet name: d7347ec8.we1 is shown as an attach to 6725520.msg
===6725520.msg===
ARCmail Phil Kimble
/home/bbbs/outbound/d7347ec8.we1 29 Jun 11 00:00:04 INTL 1:128/2
1:261/38 FLAGS DIR KFS
===
Arcmail attach mailers like FrontDoor use one outbound for all
zones.. so with an arcmail attach mailer, you'll see all your
netmail messages in one single outbound area, regardless of the
Zone.
2. Binkley-Style Outbound Mailers or Flo Mailers
Binkley-Outbound type mailers are named that way because they use
the same general directory structure as Binkley-Term, with a
separate outbound for each Zone.
Binkley-Outbound (BO) style mailers are also often called FLO
mailers.. They don't use netmail messages to attach the packet,
rather the mailer sometimes creates file with a .flo extension, that
lists all of the netmail messages that should be sent by the mailer
to the destination node.
????????.flo files might look like this:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bbs bbs 16 2010-09-26 02:07 0000000c.hlo
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bbs bbs 16 2010-09-26 02:07 00000005.hlo
The BO mailer also lists the flavour of the netmail to be sent, such
as crash or hold, by using a specific extension for each flavor of
mail being sent out... in other words, crash netmail is shown as a
.CLO (flo, but with a C), messages on hold are listed as in a .HLO
file.
With BinkD which uses BO style directories, the list of netmail
messages to be sent can be listed as a .CLO (CRASH) or .HLO (HOLD),
depending on the flavor you have put in the BinkD config file, and
rather than create a .flo file, BinkD puts all the files for a
particular node in a particular directory:
For example, BinkD creates a directory under linux at least, for each
node:
/home/bbbs/binkd/outbound/01050026.pnt:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bbs bbs 16 2010-09-26 02:07 0000000c.clo
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bbs bbs 16 2010-09-26 02:07 00000005.clo
because of the .clo extension the mailer knows to send that traffic
immediately (crash).
BinkD is a BO style mailer in that it creates separate outbounds for
each node it sends mail to.. though binkd doesn't create a .flo
file listing all the netmail messages like Binkley-Term mailer (the
grandad of mailers) does, rather it creates a directory for each
node it sends to.
3. Using an Internet Mailer like Argus (or it's clone, Radius), or
BinkD
Essentially the first thing you have to remember is to tell your BBS
program and your mailer what type mail you are going to send (BO or
Arcmail attach) - both the BBS program and the mailer have to match
as to the type mail being sent.
If you are using ARGUS mailer, you have to decide if you want "many
outbounds" (flo_mailer) or just one (ArcMail).. for many outbounds,
you'd specify "FLO_MAILER" in say the sbbs.cfg file if you are
running Synchronet.
Here's an example of a sbbs.cfg file of a node using a Argus in BO
mode, Thanks to Robert Starr for this example:
===========cut here========start sbbsecho config==========
NOTIFY 1
FLO_MAILER (comment Zone 1)
ELIST_ONLY
LOGFILE d:\sbbs\data\logs\sbbsecho.log (can change)
LOG ALL
INBOUND d:\sbbs\radius\inbox\ (comment: can change,
for each ftn program)
SECURE_INBOUND d:\sbbs\radius\inbox\secure\ (comment: can change,
for each ftn program)
OUTBOUND d:\sbbs\radius\outbox\ (comment: can change,
for each ftn program)
DIRECT 1:261/38
PACKER ZIP 0 504B
PACK %!pkzip %f %s
UNPACK %!pkunzip %f %s
END
USEPACKER ZIP 1:261/38 1:ALL 2:ALL 3:ALL 4:ALL 5:ALL 6:ALL 10:ALL
AREAFIX 1:261/38 ******
ROUTE_TO 1:261/38 1:261/38 1:ALL 2:ALL 3:ALL 4:ALL 5:ALL 6:ALL
=================cut here======end sbbsecho config========
4. Using Argus as an ArcMail Attach Mailer or as a BO Mailer
This tutorial at http://www.filegate.net/zone1/ar-index.html takes
you through setting up Argus as an Arcmail Attach type mailer. Just
follow the steps outlined in that document, and you should be all
set.
If you'd rather use BO style outbounds, there is another tutorial
for Radius (an Argus clone) at
http://time.synchro.net:81/fidonet.ssjs
5. T-Mail style Boxes in BinkD
One of the neatest things you can do with BinkD, is use T-mail style
boxes to store and then send mail.
You can tell BinkD in the binkd.cfg file for each node, whether to
use the normal inbound and outbound directory or whether to use
directories you specify for that node in the config file, as that
node's inbound and/or outbound directory.
This is an example that tells binkd to send out from the
binkd/rossout directory:
node 1:123/500@fidonet the-estar.com c PASSWORD /home/binkd/rossout
This tells Binkd to use the normal inbound directory for mail from
1:123/500, but only to use the directory, /home/binkd/rossout/ for
outbound files. This line also tell binkd to send the traffic in
the rossout directory as crash mail.
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