Hi everyone,

I am trying to configure a BIND DNS server to handle three websites on my home network, (my site, my sons site and our test site). Since my ISP uses dynamic DNS, we are using DNS2GO to redirect our traffic, 9EACH SERVER HAS IT'S OWN VERSION OF dns2go running).

My problem is that I can't figure out how to configure BIND since I don't have a static IP to enter into the named.conf or reslov.conf configuration files.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

zog

Don't use bind.
Assuming you have one router gateway to the net, point all port 80 requests at your "server" and use apache to forward requests for the other websites to the other machines. You can do that using entries in /etc/hosts if you want to use domain names.
eg in the root directory of your web server make an .htaccess file containing
or
in /etc/hosts add a line for each separate domain

Obviously amend the domain names and ip addresses as necessary.

BTW, running the update client on each machine is unnecessary and will get you warned about abusive updating. They all share the same public ip so only run the client on one machine.

Hi smoker,

Ok, this is what I am understanding form your reply;

Build another machine, (I am using Virtualbox to create virtual servers), then configure Apache to route the traffic to the other servers. The question I have is do I configure it as a proxy server or just the Apache server part?

Thanks

zog

I have no experience with Virtualbox, so I can't answer your question. In theory it should work exactly the same but in practice ...
I don't see the need for a proxy server anywhere.
As long as the name is pointed to the site then it should work. All requests coming through port 80 will go to the machine that the router forwards port 80 to. How you direct those requests from there is up to you. Assuming the virtualbox machines have routeable ip addresses then it should be no different.
It is only a couple of lines in an .htaccess file and a line in /etc/hosts to test it anyway ...

Hi smoker,

Sorry for the delay in responding to your post, been a little busy for the last day.

I am about to try what you have suggested, however, <i have a question before I get started.

Is it possible to use this method to redirect smtp and pop3 traffic, (along with any other services that I am running)? My servers have qmail running, along with http and ftp.

Googling for more info now, but if you had any suggestion, please let me know.

Thanks

zog

I don't think that will work with smtp and pop traffic. In that case you really need a gateway server to redirect traffic. If you go the bind route, you need to use something to rewrite your bind config when your public ip changes. Maybe there is a facility in your router you can query to get the new address ?