Amiga Name Servers???

[impactor]

Hi to you all, :-D  

I am new to the forum, although I have been visiting the site on and off for years as I have always kept an eye on the Amiga world.

My current BIG project (purely for my personal use) is to set up my own name servers, why you ask?  Well, because I want to challenge myself and host my own domain so I thought this seemed like fun :-? - I was going to use BIND on a Windows machine and linux machine.  However, I got thinking why don't I put my Amiga's to use as they have been sleeping in the loft for many years and need to do something as it criminal they are redundant!  So, I thought I would see if it is possible to run any DNS software on them.  

Well, anyways, I have got 2 towered A1200 Amigas, one has a Blizzard '040 40MHz accelerator and 8MB RAM and the other has a '030 50Mhz and 4MB RAM, they both have hard drives.  I have Amiga OS 3.5.

Any help you guys could give me would be really appreciated.  I am not a network engineer or anything, just an IT enthusiast and an Amigan!

Thanks and best regards,

Lee. :-)

[impactor]

Hi Piru,

I should have said that my eventual aim is to set up my own webserver, but initially I want my own nameservers.

Thanks for the reply.
Lee.

[impactor]

Hi Piru,

I know - but I want world domination  :-D

Lee.  :-)

[impactor]

Hi,

Thanks to you all for the help.

I am learning how name servers work, and really am just playing about at the moment, you could say I am at the experimental stage  :-)
Yes I have access to some static IP addresses, so this is not a problem.
I have just checked Aminet and found some great info, I think I will install BIND 4.9 and see how I get on, however, I am aware there are some security issues with this version, so I think I'll see how things develop.

Thanks again,

Lee.
 

[impactor]

Thanks you guys for your replies, I am picking up some great information.

@ AMC258

I am gonna check out the Sparc option, already found some on eBay - v. cheap. Although I don't know anything at all about Sun stuff!!!  Do you know what version of Sun OS / Solaris I would need to run BIND 8.x?  Thanks.  

@ Trev

Do you know if NetBSD/amiga runs BIND 8.x?  Thanks.

[impactor]

@ AMC258

What is the name server software for Solaris called?  Thanks.