Hi, I'm having trouble setting up my web server with DNS. I need to do this because, apparently, I need to have DNS set up in order to have the capability of using sendmail. Anyways, here are some details:
1. I'm running a web server on a Fedora Core 5 box.
2. I'm running the service using Apache, MySQL and PHP.
3. I only want the users in my private network to be able to access the web site, or Intranet.
4. I already have a web site up and running, has been running for the last 8 months.
5. The IT department provided me with a static IP,
6. The hostname is being resolved using NETBIOS broadcast, and currently am not running DNS on the Fedora box.
7. Using the GUI, under the DNS tab when selecting the Networking menu, I have filled in the hostname, primary DNS and secondary DNS.
8. If I do an nslookup <IP address>, the name doesn't get resolved, I get the following:
*** ren.mine.com can't find 10.12.12.12: Non-existent domain
9. Service names is running.
I started to read chapter 18 of the HOWTO Linux Home Networking site, but I'm starting to get confused, seems like the instructions are geared toward someone interested in running their own web server and making it available to the Internet.
Can someone help me get started? Thanks!
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If you already have a DNS server on your network then just adding the nameserver entry in resolv.conf should do the trick.
In your point 7 you said you added the hostname, this should be the IP address of the DNS servers, if you add a hostname it will need to do a lookup to find out the IP address and well... I think you get the point...
2 thinks
1. ask to your network managers if it is possible to add the reverse to your IP.
2. the ip range 10.x.x.x is impossible to see over the internet are private IPs like 192.168.x.x
3. Read this is a step by step to install dns systems
http://sipx-wiki.calivia.c
if you are new in linux install webmin to operate your server.. http://www.webmin.com
OK, I have a couple of questions for you guys, sorry for my lack of knowledge, I promise I'll read more about networking!
I opened /etc/resolv.config, and found two entries:
nameserver (IP address of Primary DNS)
nameserver (IP address of Secondary DNS).
The name I want to assign to the server is prostats. Do I just replace nameserver with prostats?
you can put the hostname prostats but if in the dns not adding this name you only recognize himself with the name prostat..
All windows or linux clients go to company dns to check if prostats have any IP related.. if found the ping or anything answer to whis IP but if the clients cant find in the dns the name prostats the clients only have a answer that prostats dont exist.
you can put any name to hostmane but always put the prostat for etic
Pablo, are you still monitoring the question? Anyways, if you are, or if somebody is still looking at it, I just talked to one of the IT guys and he said that the name prostats was resolving the IP address assigned to the server, but he was not sure if it was resolving to the primary and secondary IP addresses. Is this the right way to go?
I ended up using having a person another department assist me in configuring sendmail, which was my main problem. Unfortunately, through the process, we found out that the PHP configuration is broken, I'm missing phpize, not sure what that is for. I guess I'll have to fix that. For now, I'm just going to close this question and award points to those who participated. Thanks!
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by: uetian1707Posted on 2007-03-14 at 23:04:01ID: 18725069
Hi,
You need to do the following things to run DNS on Fedora:
1- Edit the /etc/resolv.conf and put this entry:
nameserver ipaddressofyourmachine
2- Edit named.conf and enter the domains which you want to add.
3- Enter the rndc key in the named.conf
4- edit the zone file for that particular domain which usually resides in /var/named/.