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Rutvik Dave7-Mar-14 15:36

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7-Mar-14 15:36

Good to know. Thanks.

Do they give you a static ip? Because I have spent good amount of time trying to setup vmware's Zimbra Mail Server on CentOS using Windows Azure Virtual Machine. And I learn that Zimbra is not a stable software. And Azure VM gets new IP every time it restarts, which makes your DNS/SPF records invalid and your mails starts getting tagged as spam. Amazon AWS do support elastic IP address.

So after several failed attempts to get a cheaper mail server, finally switched to Google Apps. Smile | :)

rriegel7-Mar-14 15:44

7-Mar-14 15:44

Yes, you get a static IP. I have deleted and started many new servers and have always had the same IP address.

Rutvik Dave7-Mar-14 15:53

Remind Me This - Manage, Collaborate and Execute your Project in the Cloud

7-Mar-14 15:53

Nice, I will give it a try.

Thanks.

rriegel7-Mar-14 15:48

7-Mar-14 15:48

The other thing that bothers me is their DNS is controlled in their "control panel". I'd rather run Bind on my VPS. But I'm getting used to it. My current VPS (not digitalocean) I can create a subdomain, restart bind, and it is there! It takes about 30 minutes for a subdomain DNS record to update at digitalocean.

Rutvik Dave7-Mar-14 16:00

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7-Mar-14 16:00

I hear you, but if we consider the price point, I think I can wait 30 min.

or better if they are giving us a static IP and a VM that is not behind a NAT box, then I will just use my Domain Hosting's DNS services, it gets updated right away.

rriegel7-Mar-14 15:56

7-Mar-14 15:56

The more I think about it though... as long as I have a static IP address I should be able to bypass their DNS and run Bind on the server? I'm not a DNS expert though.

Rutvik Dave7-Mar-14 16:03

Remind Me This - Manage, Collaborate and Execute your Project in the Cloud

7-Mar-14 16:03

Yes, you can sure do that.

You only need local DNS service, when you are behind a NAT box, i.e. Azure will give you 2 different IP Address 1 internal and 1 external. So you need a Bind to bridge these two. But if you have just 1 static IP, you don't need Bind on your VM.

I would just use the DNS service provided by the Domain Hosting company, and not use Digital Ocean or even Bind on the local VM.

rriegel7-Mar-14 16:52

7-Mar-14 16:52

I got curious...

I went to GoDaddy and created NS1.MYDOMAIN.COM and NS2.MYOMAIN.COM that both point to the IP address of my digital ocean server.

So once those propagate NS1 and NS2 should point to my servers IP address?

Once I can ping those I will setup Bind on the digital ocean server and mess with it. Sounds to me that it should work.

If I can get this set up this way I will drop my "old host" because I will save $20/month.

As I said before my server is just a hobby, I do have mail for a friends domain hosted on other server but the http goes to his other site (via DNS, his domain points to my server), I'm pretty much just the mail server for him. I do need more than local DNS because of that.

Guess I'm setting this up as a webhost instead of a test machine Smile | :)

Randy