Re: Setting up DNS for virtual domains
Jeremy,
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Mostly Harmless wrote:
> 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
Your school is pretty generous.
> 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.
http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/config/example.html
http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/bind8.2_master-file.html
http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/docs/style.txt
Then test using dig and nslookup (and from other machines specify
gertrude.williams.edu as the name server when using nslookup/dig).
> 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.
I use Network Solutions and joker.com.
With Network Solutions, you can register your name server. Use the Host
Form to register your name server.
http://www.networksolutions.com/makechanges/forms.html.
Then you can change the dns/whois info to say your nameserver (gertrude)
is authoritative.
With joker.com (which is part of CORE), you need to register yourself with
a core-handle.
https://joker.com/domain/register_step01.html?lang=EN
Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net/
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
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