On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Saravanan S <dearsarava...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Kannan, > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:11 PM, kannan kesavan wrote: > >> >> so pls guide me how to installation of dns and how to configure ? >> > > There are two ways available for dns, one with the actual dns setup, and > other dns-kind of simple way with manual entries in resolv.conf. > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-how-to-setup-as-dns-client.html
The way I understood the OP, he wants to setup DNS zone and not just be a consumer from some other server that gets referenced via /etc/resolv.conf The quick (and archaic) way would be to add entries in /etc/hosts. This works great when you have only one machine in your setup - no overhead of installing BIND, creating forward and reverse maps etc. See "man 5 hosts" for the format of each entry and also make sure that /etc/nsswitch.conf has an entry like: "hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns" "files" must be the first entry; it forces the name resolver to look at /etc/hosts first before querying a DNS server. > and how to create domain and sub - domain ? >> how to use that ? >> > > This you can do by configuring / adding Virtual Hosts entries in the web > server config. IMO, this is an incorrect answer. To be able to do the above you still need the Vhosts to be defined in a DNS table (or /etc/hosts if *all* name resolutions are done on one and only one machine). To set up a "zone" associated with a domain name, OP needs to register a domain name with a registrar and use that domain name. Zones for sub-domains can be created by prefixing a name to the registered domain name. I have seen people use domain names registered for other entities internally - that creates problems and should be avoided. So for instance, let's say the domain name is registered as example.com. A sub domains can be intra.example.com, further sub domains could be chennai.intra.example.com etc. I hope you get the picture. BIND has excellent docs that come bundled with the software. I suggest to OP to read those first and then ask specific queries on things that you do not understand. HTH -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
