Re: Setting up VSFTP at Home - Please Help

From: Tauno Voipio (tauno.voipio_at_iki.fi.NOSPAM.invalid)
Date: 06/12/05


Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:23:16 GMT

mohamad2181 wrote:
> 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?
>

I responded already in comp.os.linux.networking.

Next time, please cross-post instead of multi-posting.

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Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi


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