On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:57:57 -0700, William Astle wrote
> Shane wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply. Sorry about the typo, I was trying to change the
> > names to protect the innocent...
> >
> > Part of my confusion is that I only have 1 external IP address. If
> > randomwords.ca already points to 68.100.xxx.xxx can theserpentstooth.com
also
> > point to that same address?
> >
> > $TTL 3D
> > @ IN SOA theserpentstooth.com. root.randomwords.ca. (
> > 20041101
> > 8H
> > 2H
> > 4W
> > 1D )
> > NS ns.randomwords.ca.
> > MX 10 randomwords.ca.
> > theserpentstooth.com. A 68.100.xxx.xxx
> > www CNAME @
> >
> > Like so?
>
> Indeed it can. You can have as many domains/names pointing to the
> same IP address as you want. It's not uncommon for large vhost
> providers to have thousands of domains pointing to the same IP
> address. As long as you configure Apache, etc., correctly,
> everything should work.
>
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > Shane
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:23:12 -0700, William Astle wrote
> >
> >>Shane wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hello group.
> >>>
> >>>I was wondering if someone would be willing to discuss virtual hosting
> >
> > from
> >
> >>>the BIND stand-point. I have setup "name based" virtual hosts on my
> >
> > machine,
> >
> >>>but the DNS part I'm a little unclear about...
> >>>
> >>>For some reason, my setup doesn't register with anyone on the Telus
> >>>network...
> >>>
> >>>I have in named.conf:
> >>>
> >>>zone "thevirtualdomain.com" {
> >>> type master;
> >>> file "virtual.com";
> >>>};
> >>>
> >>>And in 'virtual.com':
> >>>
> >>>$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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Thanks again. I really appresiate the assist as there hasn't been a ton of
documentation on-line that I could find... I thought I was gonna have to
cave and buy the big scary DNS and Bind book.
Probably should anyway...
Shane
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