bimap instead of public ip and servers

[Lowell Gilbert]

freebsd <freebsd at beke.info> writes:

> Hi all,
> i have a following problem, probably someone was through this before and
> can offer advice.
> Now i'm using DSL with static ip address and on my home FreeBSD server
> there is group of servers serving my family and friends. Servers are qmail,
> djbdns and apache.
> I'm doing dns for my domain, mail server and http is also under my full
> control.
> Now i found cheaper option, but...
> Instead of public static ip i'll have only bimap. Provider don't want to
> route my public address into his LAN, because he don't want to waste
> additional public ip's. Now i have a problem.
> I'm not sure, if it will be possible to run DNS server, mail server and
> web server in this enviroment. Just now i found, that qmail first checks
> if his ip is resolved MX record for domain it's serving and refuses to
> start, if it's not. And i'm bimapped, so it's not ;-).
> I'll play with this during a weekend, but if someone can help, i'd be
> gratefull.
> Maybe this is not exactly FreeBSD problem, hope you don't mind ;-).

I don't know anything about qmail particularly, but if you're running
your own DNS, you should be able to report anything you want to the
DNS queries of your own mail daemon...