Macha's questions

I have a domain from my old web host, which was free with my hosting account.

After a few years, I am moving to a VPS. Most of my other domains were registered with Namecheap, so it was just a matter of changing a few DNS records.

However, given that my old host does not provide me with a DNS control panel, and I don't want to be paying a full hosting bill for just domains, I'm now looking into transferring it.

My old host says there will be a charge of $15 to them. NameCheap's page seems to imply you don't need the current registrar to do anything, but it also seems to be based on sending an email to the one listed in whois.

Of course, my old host have whoisguard on the domain so the only email on it is [email protected] (and not a unique [email protected], just [email protected]) which doesn't go to me. Again, there doesn't seem to be an option to disable this.

So, is it a case of paying my old host's fee, and paying again for the domain from NameCheap, or is there some other way to transfer my domain?

(I'm not really sure which of the trilogy sites this is best for.)

I have satelite broadband in my house (it's the only ISP I can get).

A rough network diagram is below

The internet
      |
My ISP
      |
My IP address (what every site sees) 84.x.x.x. At least 3 customers of my
ISP are behind this IP address. Also is gateway.myisp.com
      |
The box in my house (part router, part satelite signal decrypter,
part satelite dish power supply) 192.x.x.1
      |
My router 10.0.0.1 (Also 192.x.x.100 )
      |
My PC 10.0.0.5

I'm not able to change the settings on my ISP's box. Within my house, 84.x.x.x is a page for mikrotik routeros (nothing I can change), 192.x.x.x is a password prompt, 10.0.0.1 is my router, and 10.0.0.5 is apache on my pc.

Outside, 84.x.x.x is a blank white page and 192.x.x.x is server not found.

My IP is not dynamic, I've had the same one for over a year now. Going onto speedtest shows several hundred results for 84.x.x.x, with varying speeds that definitely aren't my connection, some at the same time as I've been online.

I know I've phrased this question horribly, but this really isn't my area, any help to put it better from anyone would be appreciated.

What I want to know is, given that my ISP is probably proxying my connections, and my public-facing IP is probably shared, is it at all possible for me to run a internet accessible server of any kind (apache, irc, games, etc.)?

(Another oddity that may be related: IRC servers, and bittorrent clients that usually get a IP address instead get a hostname which is just gateway.myisp.com )

I have a dual boot system running Vista and Ubuntu. There are certain DNS lookups that don't work on ubuntu (chat.freenode.net, releases.mozilla.org and the YIM server to name a few).

All these work correctly when I boot Vista. ATM I'm just getting someone else to find the IP address for me and adding that to my /etc/hosts . Once that's done, it works fine.

I can't test other Linux distributions, as they're united in their hatred of either my graphics card or my network card.

So my question, Is this a known issue (hopefully with a known fix)? If not, is there any more efficient way to get the IP address other than asking someone to get it for me?

(And I'd like to remind people, before someone tags it belongs-on-superuser, that superuser does not yet exist)

I'm trying to install bugzilla3. I previously had mysql-server-5.1 installed, and it gave the following error:

Aborting downgrade from (at least) 5.1 to 5.0.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.0_5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10.2_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.0_5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10.2_i386.deb

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I went onto the ubuntu irc channel and asked for help where I was told to downgrade mysql to 5.0 and then install bugzilla.

So I went to do this. However when I

sudo apt-get remove mysql-server-5.1

the bugzilla installation configuration begins, and goes until it stops again complaining about the 5.1 -> 5.0 downgrade.

So I went and asked again on the irc and I was told to

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update

which I did.

It was still happening however so I removed the bugzilla3 package and tried to remove mysql then. And apparently it wasn't there. (I checked mysql-server, mysql-server-5.1 and mysql-server-5.0).

So I went to install bugzilla3 again, and it got as far as last time and complained about mysql-server-5.1 -> 5.0 downgrade. And now apt-get reported it was there, but it won't remove it as it starts the bugzilla install.

How do I fix this?