I have a static IP, running redhat server, using gnome.

Can someone point me in the right direction for resolving my IP address so it shows my domain.net?

I searched and I know this information is probably covered on here already but I don't really know what I'm looking for so I don't really know what to search for.

Thanks again

I am assuming you already have a domain name?
If so you either can setup your own DNS server to do the job or let one of the many services outthere do it for you.

Brian

I'd prefer to run it all from here.

Then you need to etup DNS and contact the place you have the domain name from to have them setup the DNS on their end to point to your DNS server. This is one of the few servers I have never setup so no help there from me. Many post here on simply DNS setup plus, many hits from a google search, and tons of books out there.

Brian

I found some info in some other threads on here. Someone suggested Webmin. I have never heard of it but it sounded good so I installed it. Now I'm not able to access it so I don't know what I'm doing wrong here and their docs are not for the newbie.

localhost:1000 comes back bad.

Okay I went through the config for webmin and saw it's listening to port 10000 not 1000 like something else I was reading. I changed that and now it's stalling on the secured connection.

Okay it's working now. I wasn't waiting long enough I guess.


Now that I'm in webmin, anyone know how to do what I need?

I never set one up but say webmin you go under Server and select Binds DNS and select the 2nd option. The first one is for setting up dns as a local caching only server. Then you need at least a master zone based on info of the domain name. After that I don't know.

Brian

I appreciate the help. That's about as far as I got too. It's not a big deal, it's just one of those things that would be nice but not needed.

Once you get the nameserver installed, it provides the mapping of IP address to domain name, and you're done, easy as pie.

I suggest avoiding webmin, but if you feel comfortable playing with pictures instead of working with text files, so be it.

Peace,
JimBass

Okay, the nameserver is installed, how do I do the mapping? What files do I need to edit? I kinda need a step by step on this one.

Can I do this with top level domain?

google_is_both_my_friend_and_yours

Peace,
JimBass

Man I live there and I'm sorry if I'm being too much of a bother, I'm just not really getting it and not always 100% sure the information I find is even what I'm looking for.

Live and learn! Since you don't have any traffic to your site at present, what is the worst that can happen? You have no new traffic to your site! So 0 + 0 = 0, no loss to my eyes. Take a shot at it.

For the most part, people here are very supportive of helping new folks out, but there is a difference between pointing in the right direction and saying, "move your right foot forward .5 meters, shift your balance from your left foot to your right, now swing the left foot forward past the right to the end of your stride, shift balance, repeat." You generally won't get the hold my hand and tell me every little thing I must do level of service. There are probably close to 100,000 examples of setting up BIND servers on the public internet. It hasn't changed much in the past 15 years. Some of the back end mechanics have changed, but the named.conf file and the individual zone files are a very basic, standard formula.

You're asking for directions on the 2nd step before you take the 1st. Install BIND, setup a zone file, try to get it to work. That way, when you post back, you can post with a specific problem, like, "when I query the DNS server, it gives the wrong IP." There have been many books written about setting up a DNS server, and we have neither the space or the time to rehash all of that here on the pages of this site. When you try it for yourself, you'll probably find it very easy, but if you hit a snag, write up what you did and what didn't work, then it is easy for us to point you in the right direction with a short answer.

Peace,
JimBass