Using BIND9 and DHCP3 to setup a dynamic DNS solution.

Background For the last four years I’ve been using the DHCP and DNS server roles on my Microsoft 2003 R2 server to form a DDNS (Dynamic DNS) solution and it’s been working well. It’s a fairly simple setup where: A client device on the local subnet makes a DHCP request. DHCP server responds with an… Read more »

Setting up a mail server using Postfix on Ubuntu 10.04

Introduction. Background. I had already build a VoIP system using CentOS (another Unix-like OS) as a base with trixbox CE providing the VoIP telephony. It was a fun project and for all the same reasons I wanted to do something similar for our messaging. I naturally (or some may argue un-naturally) started thinking about Microsoft… Read more »