Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 21:37:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Bryan Bradsby <Bryan.Bradsby@capnet.state.tx.us> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS for virtual hosting Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004162110390.4508-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <005f01bfa7f9$a0565150$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Doug Young wrote: > I need to configure local DNS in 4.0 RELEASE so that a local webserver > which is really "somewhere.net" can masquerade as > "someplace_else.com", and also allow mail for / from to be received / > sent on behalf of "someplace_else.com". 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. > I know I've gotta do some > messing around with apache as well, but the documentation for that > looks reasonably explicit (says he before trying) .... however I > figure the immediate issue is to get the local DNS stuff sorted out > before I get into apache. Two possible solutions here. I like number 2. 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 spent most of Sunday on the thing, reading the relevant part of > "Complete FreeBSD" but since I've never had to learn that stuff before > its extremely confusing. I got to the end of the section, added files > etc as per instructions, but when I tested the installation it spat > out about a thousand weird error messages, so obviously there were > some things not quite correct :) > > however there isn't much about the relative differences between BIND4 & > BIND8, and for that matter I don't know what 4.0 RELEASE has. FreeBSD4.0 ships with 8.2.2 -thanks team! BIND8 is far superior, uses substantially the same file format for the zone files, but the 'named.boot' is now 'named.conf', looks more like a .c source file than the table format in the old BIND4. But that makes no difference to you. Just learn the BIND8, and forget BIND4. There is a nice file format guide and man page info at www.isc.org > "TCP/IP Network Administration" defines four styles of DNS setup, > resolver only, caching only, primary, & secondary, but doesn't provide > much info about the implications of using each type. I assume I need > to setup "primary" as the DNS server has to appear to the domain tribe > in USA or wherever as a "proper" DNS server. So far its refused to > acknowledge the "someplace_else.com" site as a "proper" DNS server, > but given the number of error messages produced when I run "named" I'm > not particularly surprised. Is there anything else not clearly spelled > out thats involved in setting up the local stuff so it does present as > a "proper" DNS server to the domain name folk ?? You need DNS primary and secondary on two separate servers. Preferably geographically diverse. > Last question for Monday morning (in OZ) ... Is there something else > more explicit than "TCP/IP Network Administration" in the way of entry > level documentation on this area, bearing in mind that since there are > only a dozen or so machines on the local LAN / WAN, and only one > "virtual host" I only need the barest essentials to get the thing > working ?? I like the DNS and BIND (third edition). Just read (and completely understand) chapters 1 - 4. No problem ;-} If you get stuck, send me your zone files and named.conf. -bryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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