DNS, BIND and apache
 

Ok let me start off by saying i am the newest newbie and you guys probably know it and then i'll get to the point. I registered a name from network solutions (dilberim.com), I have redhat 7.1 webserver, i have a static IP from my ISP and finally i bought Oreillys DNS and BIND. I just can not seem to figure out how to do this bind thing. The example that is in the book is very different than what i am looking for or is it me? I just want my homepage to show up when i type dilberim.com . Can anybody help me? is there a website or any documentation that would help me? I've been working on it for days, i am ready to take a knap with the penguin.

What is your purpose for running bind or having your own DNS server? It seems your ISP is already providing you dns service park1.jomax.net and park2.jomax.net. If you'll have web server like apache, people will find your linux box by send query to your isp (park1 or park2.jomax.net). You don't need both with DNS server unless you have a large network and you wish to run and maintenaine your own DNS or caching server.
If I were you, forget about bind and DNS server, put more time with your apache.

Good luck.

thanks
 

Thanks for replying.
I am not very familiar with Apache either. I am just a newbie. If you know any website that would help me i would appreciate it. Thanks

Got to www.apache.org, there you'll find answers to all the common questions. regards.

Have you looked at http://www.linuxdocs.org

There is a BIND HOW-TO, although when I was setting my DNS up (seems like ages ago now!) I ended up following that O'Reilly book that you've got as I couldn't follow the HOWTO. Yet a friend said he couldn't follow the book and thought the HOWTO was great... so have a look, you might think the same way by friend did.

HTH

Jamie...

thx
 

Ok thanks jamie and lionking. Jamie the website you recomended helped more than Oreilys book. Thanks.
Lionking are you saying that i can just tell my apache to get the query from my isp's ip or something? I did not really understand what you were explaining, can you expand it a little?

What I was trying to say is: Your ISP is providing DNS service for your domain, and I don't think you need to run your own DNS server. ISP's bandwidth are usually better because they are a step closer to the internet high capacity backbone. Unless you have a large internet network, why bother to install and run your own DNS?

hey
 

ok i think i know what you mean. Now i have a question about apache. Changing the ServerName from localhost to http://www.dilberim.com would get me where i want to be? I have been reading the apache's site for like 2 hours and that's all i got out of it. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html < ~~and i found that site would that help me? Thanks again

Yeah, setting your servername to www.dilberim.com would be a winner. The basic Apache setup is pretty easy, if you need to do interactive stuff then you will want to look into enabling CGI and possibly adding PHP to your setup.

good luck

Jamie...

No, changing server name on your linux box or apache doesn't mean people will find your server based on that name. You can call it localhost in the apache configuration file, not a problem, as long as you tell the rest of the world that www.dilberim.com is 63.241.136.56 or whatever. This is done thru your DNS authoritative for your domain - whoever maintains the record.

You'll need to ask domain name authoriative which is bellow to add an entry into their DNS server to point www.dilberim.com host to the internet ip address you desire. So the rest of the world can contact to the right server.

Administrative Contact:
Hostmaster, Go Daddy dns@jomax.net
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5320 E Dynamite Blvd.
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480-824-1300
Technical Contact:
Hostmaster, Go Daddy dns@jomax.net
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5320 E Dynamite Rd
Cave Creek, AZ 85331
USA
(480) 824-1300

I already have CGI, and perl setup already and i created a forum already. I never tried PHP though. Is not it almost the same thing as perl? I am gonna check it out tonight and play with it to see if i can do. YOu can check out my website www.mytrueconfession.com

Hey
 

Ok i solved the problem. Actually, i have not really solved it. I paid some more money to gaddady to redirect my site to my ip address. However, i dont want to pay $50 every year though. And i am very eager to learn name servers. So can somebody help me a little. And also, i have 3 domain names and only one computer with dsl. And they all have the e-mail servers too. So can anybody help me? Thanks for any replies.