dns bind and linux

[hetman]

how difficult is it to set up linux so that my domain points to it and ppl can access my computer by typing ex. www.mydomain.com? (http://www.mydomain.com?)
other than bind do i need to install anything else?

[seminole103]

BIND only converts hostnames like (www.mydomain.com) to IP address, so BIND would get www.mydomain.com (http://www.mydomain.com) to point to your IP address. If you actually wanted to serve up a web site, you would need something like a Apache. Or if you wanted to do email, you would have to set up sendmail (or something equivalent).

Apache is fairly easy to set up to get a basic site up and running. In my experience, sendmail is a lot more difficult.