Re: Setting up VSFTP at Home - Please Help

From: Charif Lakchiri (charif_at_nospam.com)
Date: 06/14/05


Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:21:20 +0900

Hi,

"mohamad2181" <mohamad2181@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:6c-dnak7lap-0THfRVn-rw@rogers.com...
> Good Day All,
>
> I am trying to setup an ftp server at home so I can make some files
> available over the internet. I am using VSFTP with redhat 8.0 and it
> works
> fine as long I use the IP of my server at home provided by ISP. Here is
> the
> trick, instead of using
> ftp://192.168.1.1/docs I want to be able to use something like
> ftp://training.linuxathome.com.
>
> I don't have a lot of networking background, so please bare with me and
> hopefully by answering these I'll have better Idea where to start.
>
> 1) Do I need to setup DNS ?
> 2) If I do, that means I need to have domain name hosted by my ISP,
> correct?
> 3) I heard that some companies offer free DNS hosting, if that is
> correct,
> who are these companies?
> 4) what is the best way to approach this?
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
> Thank you
>

See my reply on comp.os.linux

Cheers.
Charif



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