On Tue, Aug 17 at 09:31AM -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Em Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:50:06 +0200, Bill Wohler escreveu: > > what questions do I need to ask my > > sysadmin to get my hostname/IP address into the DNS in my network at > > work? An apt-cache search on "reverse DNS" didn't pick anything up
for the FULL answer check "dns and bind" from o'reilly. you can google for it online and read it there, too. it talks about bind versions 4 and 8, and 9 is similar enough to 8 that you should be able to interpolate. short answer -- presuming that you have a static ip address and that you registered a domain name at an official registrar: - when you registered your domain, you selected some nameservers for it -- those DNS servers need to have resource records pointing to the IP address you're using $TTL 1W @ IN SOA your.domain.name. root.your.domain.name. ( 200408017 24H 2H 21D 2D ) ; NS nameserver.out.there. NS another.name.server. ; mail.your.domain.name. MX 10 mail ; address for zone your.domain.name. A 1.2.3.4 ; ; address for mail.your.domain.name. mail A 1.2.3.4 ; address for www.your.domain.name. www A 2.4.6.8 ; dox CNAME www the first "A" is the address for the zone; the second is the address for host mail.your.domain.name -- it happens to be at the same address as the zone in this example. the third is the address for the webserver www.your.domain.name and it's at a totally different address. and "dox" is declared to be a synonym for "www", so wherever www points to, dox does too. - for reverse mapping, you need to get whoever's in charge of the in-addr.arpa range of addresses you're in, to set that up for you: whois 4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa whois 3.2.1.in-addr.arpa whois 2.1.in-addr.arpa (your ip address, in reverse order -- and pare off the leading chunk until you find someone in charge) note that in the example above i used address 1.2.3.4 for the domain and the mail server, but 2.4.6.8 for the web server (and the dox synonym) so the latter would be attended to at 8.6.4.2.in-addr.arpa (or 6.4.2.in-addr.arpa, etc). they'll need to set up PTRs such as ; e.g. zone 3.2.1.in-addr.arpa 4 PTR your.domain.name. ; e.g. zone 2.1.in-addr.arpa 4.3 PTR your.domain.name. but to get them to do so you need to make their lives as easy as possible by sending them the precise strings to cut and paste -- after all, you're asking them to do you a favor. -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #1 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Looking to use your Debian machine as a FIREWALL? No problem! Try "apt-get install ipmasq"... After you've got your /etc/network/interfaces file set up properly, ipmasq will save you lots of work, setting up rudimentary firewall and routing tables automatically. Shorewall is more powerful and a better firewall than ipmasq, but ipmasq is a handy get-up-and-running tool for newbies. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]