Jeremy, On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Mostly Harmless wrote:
> I help admin the student computing organization's servers at my school. > We would like to offer full virtual domain service to our users, but we Your school is pretty generous. > the name gertrude.williams.edu or wso.williams.edu -- we just want to > specify 10-20 domains that should point to gertrude's IP. I think I need > a resource zone file for each domain (all based on some template) but > I'm having trouble. If anyone could point me in the direction of a > sample named.conf and a resource file or two for someone in my situation > I'd be really grateful. http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/config/example.html http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/bind8.2_master-file.html http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/docs/style.txt Then test using dig and nslookup (and from other machines specify gertrude.williams.edu as the name server when using nslookup/dig). > Issue 2: As I understand it, none of this means much unless I can > specify gertrude as the nameserver for these domains. Currently, I'm > told she's not a valid nameserver. Does this mean I need to get the > person who runs DNS for gertrude (the school) to edit the DNS records > just this once and specify gertrude as a Nameserver? What exactly should > I ask them to do? They tend to be pretty helpful as long as I know what > I need done. I use Network Solutions and joker.com. With Network Solutions, you can register your name server. Use the Host Form to register your name server. http://www.networksolutions.com/makechanges/forms.html. Then you can change the dns/whois info to say your nameserver (gertrude) is authoritative. With joker.com (which is part of CORE), you need to register yourself with a core-handle. https://joker.com/domain/register_step01.html?lang=EN Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/ http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
