I own the O'Reilly DNS Bind book, it was worth every penny. I actually bought it twice, the second time when it was updated to include bind9 info.
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:57:57 -0700, William Astle wrotealsoShane 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> 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). >> >> >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>clug-talk mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>>Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>>**Please remove these lines when replying >> >>-- >>William Astle >>finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further information >> >>Geek Code V3.12: GCS/M/S d- s+:+ !a C++ UL++++$ P++ L+++ !E W++ !N w- >>-- !D !M PS PE V-- Y+ PGP t+@ 5++ X !R tv+@ b+++@ !DI D? G e++ h+ y?
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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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