RE: Setting up DNS for virtual domains
Greetings,
IMHO, it's not all that complicated, and I'll try to make it seem simple.
In order for a machine to be a DNS server it just has to be running BIND or
some equivalent (that was easy wasn't it). As long as you have a static
routeable IP address and a name to go with it, you are in business. For the
domains that you need DNS service for, just state that your DNS server is
the DNS server for that domain (okay this is confusing). Perhaps an
example! This information is totally bogus, but it will hopefully clear
this up.
You have a machine, we'll call it aardvark.anydomain.com and it has an IP
address of 856.238.968.104 (yes, I know that this cannot possibly be valid,
but I don't have any IP addresses of my own). It's running Bind 8 (because
it's a potato box). I go to whomever I have my domain registered through
(networksolutions.com, directnic.com, domaindiner.com, etc.), and when they
ask for a DNS server, I tell them aardvark.anydomain.com, and I give them
it's address of 856.238.968.104. They will tell the root servers (who
really control all this stuff) that anything you want to know about domain I
just registered (mynewdomain.com) can be found at aardvark.anydomain.com
(856.238.968.104). Everyone on the internet then looks to the poor little
aardvark, and it say that www.mynewdomain.com can be found on
webserver.anydomain.com. If your looking for information on how to setup DNS
service, I think that there are some HOWTO's. IMHO, DNS record writing is
an art, so you probably want to ask whomever is doing your DNS service know
for a template. I'd offer, but I blunder through it everytime I do.
Hope I didn't confuse you anymore,
Brooks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Redburn [mailto:jredburn@cc492523-a.vron1.nj.home.com]On
> Behalf Of Mostly Harmless
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 8:24 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-isp@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Setting up DNS for virtual domains
>
>
> I'm going to try to explain this as bast I can though my understanding
> of a lot of these issues is shaky at best.
>
> I help admin the student computing organization's servers at my school.
> We would like to offer full virtual domain service to our users, but we
> do not have a 2nd level domain -- our main domain is wso.williams.edu,
> also known as gertrude.williams.edu. For now, we ask the school's tech
> guys to change the DNS whenever we need to a new computer. I'm
> comfortable staying with that arrangement, but a lot of users have
> registered domains with places that don't provide DNS service. We can't
> get the school DNS to change every time this happens, so we've decided
> to set up our main machine as DNS Nameserver. There's two main issues as
> I see them -- the actual DNS configuration on the gertrude and getting
> the machine "known" as a Nameserver out in the wide world.
>
> Issue 1: I've looked far and wide on the Internet (probably not far and
> wide enough) for resources telling me how to set up virtual domain
> service. Most of the examples are for Bind 4.x which make things tough
> (we're running 8). Essentially, we'd just like to have a lot of
> different domains point to the same IP: gertrude's. We'll sort it all
> out with Apache later (I can handle that part). But I just can't seem to
> figure out how to do this -- we won't be providing DNS service for
> the name gertrude.williams.edu or wso.williams.edu -- we just want to
> specify 10-20 domains that should point to gertrude's IP. I think I need
> a resource zone file for each domain (all based on some template) but
> I'm having trouble. If anyone could point me in the direction of a
> sample named.conf and a resource file or two for someone in my situation
> I'd be really grateful.
>
> Issue 2: As I understand it, none of this means much unless I can
> specify gertrude as the nameserver for these domains. Currently, I'm
> told she's not a valid nameserver. Does this mean I need to get the
> person who runs DNS for gertrude (the school) to edit the DNS records
> just this once and specify gertrude as a Nameserver? What exactly should
> I ask them to do? They tend to be pretty helpful as long as I know what
> I need done.
>
> thanks much if any of you made it this far,
> jeremy
>
> A CC: on any reply would be much appreciated - thanks.
>
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