DNS / Nameserver help (Setting up)

[squirrelbacon]

Okay please forgive me, I am a total noob and don't really understand DNS.

I have a few webservers at my house to host my website, and I also have two domains for those servers. I want to setup a nameserver so when people go to my domain "http://squirrelbacon.com" it will forward to my server "67.190.146.70:80"

I have a dedicated server up right now not doing anything, I want to turn it into a name server but I don't know where to start. Its OS is Suse 9.0 and win98 (Don't ask)... So is there like a program I can download or something on that machine to hose the name server, I just don't understand.

What do I have to do to set up a nameserver on my computer?

Thanks a lot!

 

[dongan]

Try this...

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/LinuxGuide/linux-nameserver.html

http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html

 

[markkk]

you must have DNS. what is your name server (ns1.xxx..xx) add it to your domain control panel.

If you just want to redirect/forward it..... find the domain redirect / forward on your panel and put your 67.190.146.70.

 

[squirrelbacon]

"you must have DNS. what is your name server (ns1.xxx..xx) add it to your domain control panel.

If you just want to redirect/forward it..... find the domain redirect / forward on your panel and put your 67.190.146.70."

What panel?

Try this...

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/LinuxGuide/linux-nameserver.html

http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html

hey I was just skimming through those sites, they look really good! I'll have to check them out after school, thanks

 

[Troubled1]

easiest way to direct your domain to your home based server is simply to log into your domain control panel and redirect or forward it to your server ip. I did exactly that with my testing server that I have at home. Works great and much easier then setting up your own nameservers.

 

[Ray]

You have a server at your house!!!! Dude thats really shitty for websites, I hope your site dont get to big

 

[nameserver]

You have a server at your house!!!! Dude thats really shitty for websites, I hope your site dont get to big

LOL Aww your so NICE!!!..... :P He could have a t1 or soemthing, You never know :P My server is hosted in canada, and it is on a t1 line :P and it is at the dudes house :P I get like.. 250 gigs of spaCE.. Of course i dont use it all, and i get unlimted b/w :P And its a Kickin server too

 

[abdulmueid]

Here's a suggestion.
In SuSe, open YaST package manager as root and look for the following packages (assuming you already have a fully functional server except domain name resolving):
- Bind9 + all it's dependencies
- Webmin + BIND modules + dependencies

Install them.

Then open your browser and type: http://localhost:10000. This will show up the Webmin login screen. Login with your root account and look for a link with "Bind" or "Nameserver". From here you can configure the DNS Nameserver without manually editing the files. Configure according to your requirements, preferably read up some documents about BIND (google it).

That's it from me. And yeah, it's not hard, just go for it. There are other modules for webmin too to control other things like mailserver, apache, firewalls etc..