I have exim and BIND 9 up and runing at my home. mytestdomain.com resolves properly to 192.168.10.53 which is the servers address. Now I'd like to configure it so that mail.mytestdomain.com and mystestdoman.com all resolve to 192.168.10.53 I configured it with webmin, but I'm not opposed to doing it by hand.

Thanks,

Norm

Hi,

here's the zone I added in /etc/bind/named.conf :
zone "cheznous" {
type master;
file "db.cheznous";
};

here's the /etc/bind/db.cheznous file which goes with the zone :
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA cheznous. root.cheznous. (
1 ; Serial
604800 ; Refresh
86400 ; Retry
2419200 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Negative Cache TTL
;
@ IN NS localhost.
IN A 127.0.0.1
ezeeckius IN A 192.168.0.79
aracaju IN A 192.168.0.103
aracaju-lan IN A 192.168.0.103
aracaju-dmz IN A 192.168.1.103
arpoulgwen IN A 192.168.1.10
*.arpoulgwen IN A 192.168.1.10

As you see, aracaju and aracaju-lan are the same machine.

The 2 last lines specify that arpoulgwen, foo.arpoulgwen, bar.arpoulgwen and so on points to the same IP

Bye

I don't know how webmin does this, but by hand go to your zone file and add a line like the following for every alias you want to add:
mail IN CNAME home.mytestdomain.com.

Mind the dot (.) at the and of "home.mytestdomain.com."
Don't forget to change the serial number and restart bind

Regards

Dudes, you are all so awsome. Actually webmin had set it up so that the file was /etc/bind/mytestdomain.com.hosts and the record was setup to:
I changed that record to

and all worked well.

I really appreciate your straight-up answers.


Norm

PS: I think this DNS thing is getting a whole lot clearer now. I'm going to set it up by hand next time. Practice makes perfect.

Sure