Anyone running Ubuntu?

[scrupul0us]

I'm trying to get further and further away from relying on third parties when it comes to my personal web server... Right now i use zoneedit for my DNS/nameservers/email/sub domains etc...

ive always been able to manage the web hosting portion with Apache, MySQL and PHP... so I've been working on setting up a server to handle everything in house and being a rather low level noob to linux im having some "issues"

right now my production server is running slackware one release below current... but I've recently toyed with Ubuntu (6.10 Edgy) and like it much better

Again, ive managed to setup the core web hosting stuff without issue but getting the email (squirrel mail) and all that DNS stuff is just blowing my mind

ive done some googling and have followed some tutorials (howtoforge.com mainly) but im still at a loss... ive also tried asking over at linuxquestions.org but my questions have fallen upon deaf ears... same with their IRC channel

so i figured id ask here since if you are running ubuntu and php then it stands a chance you might know something about managing your own DNS and email

any help or direction would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks,

Brian

[piersk]

I've started using Ubuntu recently as my primary OS on my laptop and have installed PHP, Apache MySQL, but not bind yet. It's very good. If you have experience of the apt package management system then you'll know what to expect.

I really like the Howtoforge tutorials and especially this one (http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_6.10). I've tried it a couple of times and it's all come together quite nicely.

[scrupul0us]

thats the same tut ive pretty much followed...

[bubblenut]

Have you tried the Ubuntu IRC channel? It's usually very helpful.

[scrupul0us]

Have you tried the Ubuntu IRC channel? It's usually very helpful.

... same with their IRC channel ...

yea... i have... to no avail tho

[Sxooter]

Well, what problems are you having with DNS, exactly? I'm no ubuntu expert, but hey, it can't hurt to ask here.

[scrupul0us]

nothing in particular... i just dont want to rely on another site to manage my dns records..

e.g if i wanna make a subdomain for my .com i dont wanna have to go to zone edit to create it, i wanna do it on my machine

aside from that im having issues getting an email system setup so i dont have to rely on roadrunner to relay my mail through them

e.g. the only way it EVER worked was sendmail with SMTP auth... i dont wanna use my ISP's mail i wanna just use my .com's purely on the machine

really those are my only two difficulties

everything on the WWW end i can handle (php, apache, mysql, etc...)