I currrently have my domain name registered with GoDaddy. Their DNS servers handle the records for the domain and I would like to be able to host my website and others on my servers.

I'm having some issues understanding the role of DNS and what is needed on my server to make this happen. Since my server shouldn't have the SOA record how do I deal with and set up my DNS?

My current setup is DSL service with a static IP to a 4 port router.

Thanks,

Hi,

DNS is domain name service which means that whoever types in his/her browser http://yourdomain.com or whatever your domain is registered to, it will resolve with your WAN router ip address being sent to the client. Since you have a static WAN ip all you have to do is forward the port 80 on the router to the web server you would like to host the sites on. Please note that you can forward a port to only one local address. If you want to run a web server on more than one box you have to configure those servers to listen on different port e.g. 8008 and forward that port on the router to that specific box. In that case those sites will be reachable through http://yourdomain.com:8008 address.

Cheers,

In GoDaddy, point the nameservers to use your static IP. Then in your ADSL router/Firewall you specify port forwarding to port 80 - or the port you want to be seen from outside to the server's internal IP.

Basically speaking here's how it works:

INTERNET <<--> www.yoursite.com <<-->> 60.22.222.222 <<--->> ADSL Router <<--> Firewall <<-->> Server

I think I'm there on the godaddy setup and all should be good to go on that end. So, here's my dilemma and setup...

INTERNET <<--> www.yoursite.com <<-->> 60.22.222.222 <<--->> ADSL Router <<--->> Linksys Router(192.168.2.1, Server on this subnet) <<--->> Linksys Router (192.168.1.1 pulled from Linksys Router, Desktop's on this subnet)

In case the above schema didn't come out or make any sense... My ADSL router feeds into a Linksys Router(192.168.2.1), the server is on the same subnet (192.168.2.0), I have another Linksys Router that gets it's IP from the first Linksys Router (Double Natting I guess) and then my desktops are on that subnet (192.168.1.0).

Since I want to be able to access my server from both a public IP and a local IP it has 2 NIC's for the subnets 192.168.2.0 and 192.168.1.0. I think this can be setup much simpler with Linux but it was needed for Winblows, I'm not sure I should use 2 NIC's or just create a second IP for a single card?

Hopefully this gibberish makes some sense and hopefully you guy's can give me some suggestions,hints and insight on how to set this up.


TW,

You need to have your domain name pointed at your ip address. There are many free dns providers who will do it for free and your ip provider may well do this service for you free as well.

Hi, thanks for the post barrythai.

Do you have any other suggestions or hints for setting up apache and the dns on the server?

TW,

Well it seems the 2 NIC's are the problem creators... once I disabled the card that I deemed as local (192.168.1.100) I was able to get to the server.

So, 3 questions still loom for me.

1) What is the correct way to install multiple NIC's for different subnets in a single Linux machine?

2) If you create a virtual IP on a Linux Machine, in order for a single card to respond to multiple IP's, I'm assuming it can only listen on the subnet in which the actual IP is established?

TW,