Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 20:40:53 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Bryan Bradsby" <Bryan.Bradsby@capnet.state.tx.us> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DNS for virtual hosting Message-ID: <010601bfa859$68aa7320$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004162110390.4508-100000@localhost>
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Thanks for the response Bryan > MX records pointing mail for "someplace_else.com" to your sendmail server. > See the sendmail docs on VirtualUserTable to see how to setup to receive > and deliver the incoming mail. OK .... strangely enough I haven't had a lot of problems recently with configuring sendmail despite the many adverse comments I've heard about it, mind you I did stumble across a one page setup text intended for <cough> Redhat <cough cough> that covered the basics quite well > > Two possible solutions here. I like number 2. Agreed .... I've got public IP addresses but would rather not waste them. However I haven't a clue in the world what you mean by "virtual IP". & exactly where to put the "zone file" ?? I haven't been to the site you provided yet, hopefully that will answer those queries. > > 1. Use one IP for each virt web site. (wasteful). > Your zone file would look something like this: > > www.someplace_else.com in a www.xxx.yyy.zzz ; virtual IP > > > 2. Use one IP for the apache server, and virtual web sites. > > www.someplace_else.com in CName somewhere.net. > www.another_one.com in CName somewhere.net. > > Of course number 2 has implications in your apache httpd.conf file. I printed out about 37 pages of Apache docs that appear to cover the issue of name based virtual hosting fairly well ..... at this point I don't expect to have a problem with configuring apache, its just the DNS stuff thats got me confused. > > You need DNS primary and secondary on two separate servers. Preferably > geographically diverse. By "geographically diverse" do you mean that the record for "someplace_else.com" has to be in another location than the "somewhere.net" machine before INTERNIC will recognize the "somewhere.net" machine as a "proper" DNS server ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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