[H-GEN] DNS setup Help and assistance sought.

gwhite gwhite at star.brisnet.org.au
Tue May 22 06:00:20 EDT 2001


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Salutations to all.

I'm setting up a webserver with virtual hosts and  and DNS servers.
Could someone give me some feed back about the way I've got it set up. 
I have include the apropriate files below. Some of them don't look to 
good to me and any help offered would be greatly apriciated.
Greg White

/etc/hosts 
127.0.0.1               localhost localhost.localdomain
209.61.188.146          server1.Veruska.net server1

/etc/hosts.conf
order hosts,bind  # Could someone tell me what the commer is for. I 
though a space would do.
multi on

/etc/resolv.conf
domain Veruska.net

nameserver 64.39.2.170  # Should put the IP of this box here as it is the 
NS.
nameserver 64.39.2.138  # These would be the ns's of the company who 
rents us the box.

***************************************************************************
********

/etc/httpd/conf/named.conf
// generated by named-bootconf.pl

options {
        directory "/var/named";
        /*
         * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
         * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
         * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
         * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
         * port by default.
         */
        // query-source address * port 53;
};

// 
// a caching only nameserver config
// 
zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "named.ca";
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "named.local";
};



zone "byroninter.net" {
        type master;
        file "/var/named/byroninter.net.hosts";
        };

zone "veruska.net" {
        type master;
        file "/var/named/veruska.net.hosts";
        };

zone "byronconcerts.com" {
        type master;
        file "/var/named/byronconcerts.com.hosts";
        };

    /* I'm thinking that this looks OK but are there any omissions? 
Mistakes? */



/var/named/named.local
@       IN      SOA     localhost. root.localhost.  (
                                      1997022700 ; Serial
                                      28800      ; Refresh
                                      14400      ; Retry
                                      3600000    ; Expire
                                      86400 )    ; Minimum
              IN      NS      localhost.

1       IN      PTR     localhost.


/var/named/byronconcerts.com.hosts
byronconcerts.com.      IN      SOA     server1.Veruska.net. 
gwhite.star.brisnet.org.au. (
                        990326074
                        10800
                        3600
                        432000
                        38400 )
byronconcerts.com.      IN      NS      server1.Veruska.net.
byronconcerts.com.      IN      NS      ns2.byronconcerts.com.
byronconcerts.com.      IN      A       209.61.188.146
ns1.byronconcerts.com.  IN      A       209.61.188.146
ns2.byronconcerts.com.  IN      A       209.61.188.146
www.byronconcerts.com.  IN      CNAME   byronconcerts.com.
ns.byronconcerts.com.   IN      NS      byronconcerts.com

// Probably one to many NS here. Help here would be good. Please!

/var/named/byroninter.net.hosts
byroninter.net. IN      SOA     server1.Veruska.net. 
gwhite.brisnet.org.au. (
                        990306154
                        10800
                        3600
                        432000
                        38400 )
byroninter.net. IN      NS      server1.Veruska.net.
byroninter.net. IN      NS      ns2.byroninter.net.
byroninter.net. IN      A       209.61.188.146
ns1.byroninter.net.     IN      A       209.61.188.146
ns2.byroninter.net.     IN      A       209.61.188.146
www.byroninter.net.     IN      CNAME   byroninter.net.
ns.byroninter.net.      IN      NS      byroninter.net.


/var/named/varuska.net.hosts
veruska.net.    IN      SOA     server1.Veruska.net. 
gwhite.star.brisnet.org.au. (
                        990322841
                        10800
                        3600
                        432000
                        38400 )
veruska.net.    IN      NS      server1.Veruska.net.
veruska.net.    IN      NS      ns2.veruska.net.
veruska.net.    IN      A       209.61.188.146
www.veruska.net.        IN      CNAME   server1.veruska.net.
ns.veruska.net. IN      A       209.61.188.146
ns2.veruska.net.        IN      A       209.61.188.146
ns.veruska.net. IN      NS      veruska.net.


There is a /var/named/named.ca

         *************************************************************
Pleas help if you can I would really appreciate any assistance.

Kind Regards 
Greg White

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