Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 13:27, Brent L. Bates blba...@vigyan.com wrote:     Just noticed something.  Have your serial number reflect the date you last updated the file.  That way you will know when you last changed it.  For example, today is September 27, 2010, if you were making your first

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 18:15, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: For completeness: there is the BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual, known as the ARM, usually supplied under /usr/share/doc/. And what many consider to be the standard reference, Liu and Albitz's DNS and BIND published

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-26 Thread Ryan Wagoner
I think you should be able to do this using BIND views with match-destinations. Have one view match destinations for 1.1.1.1 and 1.1.1.2 and the other for 1.1.1.3 and 1.1.1.4. Create a zone in one view for exampleA.com and one in the other for exampleB.com Ryan On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:08 PM,

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/24/10 11:12 PM, cpol...@surewest.net wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:28:41PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:24, Alexander Dallozad+li...@uni-x.org wrote: http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ That is a good source to read up about bind configuration. As a sidenote

[CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On a CentOS 5 server, I am having a hard time configuring BIND to answer to 4 IP addresses for 2 domain names. Currently, I have four IP addresses, for sake of discussion they are: 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.2 1.1.1.3 1.1.1.4 Additionally, I have two domain names. For sake of discussion: exampleA.com

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On a CentOS 5 server, I am having a hard time configuring BIND to | answer to 4 IP addresses for 2 domain names. | | Currently, I have four IP addresses, for sake of discussion they are: | 1.1.1.1 | 1.1.1.2 | 1.1.1.3 | 1.1.1.4 | | Additionally, I have two domain

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
Have a read for the listen on directive for BIND which tells BIND what interfaces/IP Addresses to bind to. Thanks, I am aware that Apache can be told to listen only to specific addresses. Can BIND be told to listen on all addresses? Your post implies that this is the default (which makes sense,

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Eric Viseur
Maybe a Round-Robin configuration ? 2010/9/24 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com Have a read for the listen on directive for BIND which tells BIND what interfaces/IP Addresses to bind to. Thanks, I am aware that Apache can be told to listen only to specific addresses. Can BIND be told to

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 19:26, Eric Viseur eric.vis...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe a Round-Robin configuration ? Thank you Eric, but I may have been unclear. There is only one physical server, but it answers to four IP addresses. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/24/2010 12:21 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Have a read for the listen on directive for BIND which tells BIND what interfaces/IP Addresses to bind to. Thanks, I am aware that Apache can be told to listen only to specific addresses. Can BIND be told to listen on all addresses? Your post implies

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 19:38, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: You are making it much more complicated than necessary. That is what I suspected! I know that when Linux gets difficult, it is because I'm doing it wrong! I'd configure apache to use named virtual hosts and listen on

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Have a read for the listen on directive for BIND which tells BIND | what | interfaces/IP Addresses to bind to. | | Thanks, I am aware that Apache can be told to listen only to specific | addresses. Can BIND be told to listen on all addresses? Your post |

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/24/2010 12:43 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: and bind to listen on all addresses and answer for all your domains. So, then, the association of a FQDN with any particular IP address is only done in the domain name's control panel where the nameservers are set? What's a control panel? Bind is

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 19:49, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: BIND has listen on directives as well, but if this is a single box configuration it's not necessarily required as it will listen on all interfaces. Yes, I actually do want it to listen on all addresses (only one NIC), I

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 19:59, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: What's a control panel? It is the web-based interface for the domain name registrar, in which one configures the name servers for the domain name that he bought from them.  Bind is going to want a zone file for each

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/24/2010 1:07 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: But any instance of bind can be primary for any number of domains. The association with the IP address(es) that will receive the queries happens when you register the domain into the public dns system and you can register the same server(s) as

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 20:18, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Probably a waste of time.  If anyone cares, they'll track down the domain and IP range ownership anyway (there are sites that do it automatically).  So unless you've used company aliases in the domain registration and

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
Thank you for all the help so far. To conclude: I have one physical server that answers to the following IP addresses: 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.2 1.1.1.3 1.1.1.4 I need 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.2 to be the name servers for exampleA.com, and 1.1.1.3 1.1.1.4 to be the nameservers for exampleB.com. I have these files:

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Thank you for all the help so far. To conclude: | I have one physical server that answers to the following IP addresses: | 1.1.1.1 | 1.1.1.2 | 1.1.1.3 | 1.1.1.4 | | I need 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.2 to be the name servers for exampleA.com, and | 1.1.1.3 1.1.1.4 to be the

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | - Original Message - | | Thank you for all the help so far. To conclude: | | I have one physical server that answers to the following IP | | addresses: | | 1.1.1.1 | | 1.1.1.2 | | 1.1.1.3 | | 1.1.1.4 | | | | I need 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.2 to be the name servers

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:06, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: formatting for NS records is incorrect.  It should just read                   NS ns1.exampleA.com.                   NS ns2.exampleA.com. Thanks. (I added the periods) where is your ns1.exampleA.com entry? where is

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
Ah, some better examples here: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-bind-zone.html How is this file: # cat /var/named/exampleA.com.hosts $ORIGIN exampleA.com. $TTL 1h exampleA.com. IN SOA ns1.exampleA.com. ns2.exampleA.com. ( 1; Serial -

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 24.09.2010 22:12, schrieb Dotan Cohen: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:06, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: formatting for NS records is incorrect. It should just read NS ns1.exampleA.com. NS ns2.exampleA.com. Thanks. (I added the periods)

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:43:11 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 19:38, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: You are making it much more complicated than necessary. That is what I suspected! I know that when Linux gets difficult, it is because

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:05:25 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 20:18, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Probably a waste of time.  If anyone cares, they'll track down the domain and IP range ownership anyway (there are sites that do it

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:24, Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org wrote: http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ That is a good source to read up about bind configuration. As a sidenote please be aware, that if someone directly queries your ns1.exampleA.com for exampleB.com zone records he will

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:24, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Which is still meaningless.  Some name servers serve *hundreds* of web sites, many competing with each other.  Often large hosting companies will serve hundreds of web sites, all with the *same* IP address and many in

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:24, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: So, then, the association of a FQDN with any particular IP address is only done in the domain name's control panel where the nameservers are set? It is in bind's database (zone files).  In named.conf you associate

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:58:09 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Thank you for all the help so far. To conclude: I have one physical server that answers to the following IP addresses: 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.2 1.1.1.3 1.1.1.4 I need 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.2 to be the name servers for

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:12:44 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:06, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: formatting for NS records is incorrect.  It should just read                   NS ns1.exampleA.com.                

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/24/2010 3:39 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:24, Robert Hellerhel...@deepsoft.com wrote: So, then, the association of a FQDN with any particular IP address is only done in the domain name's control panel where the nameservers are set? It is in bind's database (zone

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:41, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: You need: ns1.exampleA.com. IN      A       1.1.1.1 ns2.exampleA.com. IN      A       1.1.1.2 Here I have found conflicting information, it seems that some sources suggest this instead: ns1 IN A

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:41, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: With the rest of the IN A records for exampleA.com (and correspondingly for exampleB.com).  You need *addresses* for your name servers as well as for your web servers. I see.  And you might also want to have www.mumble

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:47, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I think that's reasonable - but note that from the rest of the world's perspective the ns1, ns2 IP's are going to come from the glue records from the upstream DNS that would have been added when you registered the servers

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:41, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com | wrote: | You need: | | ns1.exampleA.com. IN A 1.1.1.1 | ns2.exampleA.com. IN A 1.1.1.2 | | | Here I have found conflicting information, it seems that some sources | suggest this instead: | ns1

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | - Original Message - | | On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:41, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com | | wrote: | | You need: | | | | ns1.exampleA.com. IN A 1.1.1.1 | | ns2.exampleA.com. IN A 1.1.1.2 | | | | | | Here I have found conflicting information, it seems

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 23:13, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: | You need: | | ns1.exampleA.com. IN A 1.1.1.1 | ns2.exampleA.com. IN A 1.1.1.2 | | | Here I have found conflicting information, it seems that some sources | suggest this instead: | ns1 IN A 1.1.1.1 | ns2 IN A

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/24/2010 4:02 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:41, Robert Hellerhel...@deepsoft.com wrote: You need: ns1.exampleA.com. IN A 1.1.1.1 ns2.exampleA.com. IN A 1.1.1.2 Here I have found conflicting information, it seems that some sources suggest this

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
All right, I think this should do it: $ORIGIN exampleA.com. $TTL 86400 exampleA.com. IN SOA ns1.exampleA.com. ns2.exampleA.com. ( 2; Serial - increment me 10800 3600 604800

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | All right, I think this should do it: | | $ORIGIN exampleA.com. | $TTL 86400 | exampleA.com. IN SOA ns1.exampleA.com. ns2.exampleA.com. ( | 2; Serial - increment me | 10800 | 3600 | 604800 | 38400 ) | IN NS ns1.exampleA.com. | IN NS ns2.exampleA.com. | IN A

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 23:29, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: Looks good.  you can change your 10800 3600 604800 and 38400 to hours, days or weeks represented by 1h, 1d or 1w respectively  to make it easier than calculating seconds. :) Thank you! -- Dotan Cohen

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:02:21 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:41, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: You need: ns1.exampleA.com. IN      A       1.1.1.1 ns2.exampleA.com. IN      A       1.1.1.2 Here I have found

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 00:06, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: When you have an $ORIGIN statement, it defines a suffix to automatically add to any name that does not end in a '.'.  You can do either, depending on how gratiously verbose you want to be.  Of course, being verbose sort of

Re: [CentOS] Configuring BIND to answer to two domain names (four IP addresses)

2010-09-24 Thread cpolish
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:28:41PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:24, Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org wrote: http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ That is a good source to read up about bind configuration. As a sidenote please be aware, that if someone directly