Hi. I have just set up a small LAN. I am using an old pentium computer as a firewall using IPCop (192.168.1.1) as a gateway to the web. It uses a dynamic IP from my ISP so all the machines have web access. I have 3 other machines behind the firewall. I have set up a FreeBSD 4.9 server (192.168.1.2) that I want to use to develop and test my PHP and Python applications. The other machines (a Mac and Windows machine) obtain their IP between 192.168.200 - 192.168.250. I have a domain name registered that is currently pointing to a host that I am using for my live site.
So question is how to use my domain name behind my firewall in my LAN with my server for development. I don't know how to do this. I want to be able to get my server on my browser something like this: server01.mydomain.com. ( mydomain substituted for my actual domain)
I have read the DNS chapter in the FreeBSD book but I am just as confused as ever in what I need to do to achieve this. I have named my server the following: server01 and in my original configuration when I installed FreeBSD provided a fully qualified name of server01.mydomain.com (mydomain substituted for my actual domain).
my hostname file currently looks like this:
::1 localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.2 server01 server01.mydomain.com
when I type hostname at command line I get server01.mydomain.com
I have this line in my rc.conf file from the original installation:
hostname="server01.mydomain.com"
Any help greatly appreciated.
Regards, Dave
The easiest thing to do to get this up & working with a LAN that small --- just tell Windows and Mac OS the IP "192.168.1.2" is "myserver01.mydomain.com" in their hosts files. IIRC, in Win9x that's %SYSTEMDIR%/hosts (which can be copied from hosts.sam or even the /etc/hosts on your FreeBSD box, if you convert the newlines from Unix LF to DOS CR/LF, and /windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts on XP...
If you really want to set up a DNS server for this purpose, read the handbook again, and look for some tutorials.
You must edit the following files (and do it *right*)
/etc/namedb/named.boot /etc/namedb/named.conf /etc/namedb/mydomain.com.hosts
And make sure that named(8)
is running.
Finally, for exhaustive ;-) info: check the manpages for ndc(8), named(8), named.conf(5), gethostbyname(3), hostname(7), kill(1), resolver(3), resolver(5), signal(3), RFC 882, RFC 883, RFC 973, RFC 974, RFC 1033, RFC 1034, RFC 1035, RFC 1123, and RFC 2308 ``Name Server Operations Guide for BIND'' nslookup(8), dig(1)...
HTH, and isn't too bewildering....
Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
