Hello group.
I was wondering if someone would be willing to discuss virtual hosting from the BIND stand-point. I have setup "name based" virtual hosts on my machine, but the DNS part I'm a little unclear about...
For some reason, my setup doesn't register with anyone on the Telus network...
I have in named.conf:
zone "thevirtualdomain.com" { type master; file "virtual.com"; };
And in 'virtual.com':
$TTL 3D @ IN SOA thevirtualdomain.com. root.randomwords.ca. ( 20041101 8H 2H 4W 1D ) NS ns.randomwords.ca. MX 10 randomwords.ca. TXT "randomwords.ca" theserpentstooth.com. CNAME randomwords.ca. www CNAME randomwords.ca.
That looks rather weird. You have a CNAME from an unrelated domain in your zone file. Unless that's just a typo. If you meant "thevirtualdomain.com." instead of "theserpentstooth.com.", then you have another problem.
You cannot have a CNAME record and another record at the same point in the DNS tree. This means the root of your zone cannot have a CNAME record because there's an SOA and NS records.
Assume that your IP address for the virtual hosting is 10.1.1.1. You might construct a zone file as follows (I'm not going to include the SOA):
@ NS ns.radnomwords.ca.
MX 10 randomwords.ca.
A 10.1.1.1
www CNAME @TXT records are irrelevant for this situation.
Note that this is not ideal because if you have to change the IP address of the server, you have to change every zone but I'm not aware of a good way around it.
Note also that if you don't need "virtualdomain.com" to respond on HTTP but just "www.virtualdomain.com", you can leave out the A record all together (and the issue from the previous paragraph goes away).
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