Lee and I are trying to figure this out, and we both thought of
the list at the same time... anyway.
Basically, I have domain names (oh.. about 120) and I have IPs
(Class C). If someone wants a shell account on my machine, and
wants to use it for irc or whatever, I'd like the reverse DNS to
work. In order to do this, I have to specify an IP address.
That's easy enough. Where my problem arises is making the linux
machine 'understand' who I want that IP to be assigned to.
I understand how to setup the DNS (I have them all setup with
win2k), and how to point it to that machine (bind it to the NIC,
in this case eth0:0), what I don't understand is how do I get it
such that if I login to the machine with my username 'Cloak' for
instance, will it understand that its 207.188.100.99 (public IP)
and not the machine IP itself.
I don't know if I can make myself any more clear... I have no
idea how to do this, so that's probably the source of my problems.
(To give an analogy as I understand it. If you're doing IP based
hosting (vs named) each user account and resulting domain is
given an IP. That's basically what I'm trying to do, but I don't
necessarily want the webhosting done on the linux machine yet, so
no, i don't want to deal with Apache).
As for the 'cool' domain name, the other alternative use we're
trying to head for here is if a client has a website hosted with
me, and they want to use a shell account so they can keep an IRC
bot open to take questions about their business. And it would be
much more professional if it showed up as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks.
Pete Jr.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Greg Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 23:28:08 -0400
>Two messages in a row that ask for the same thing, and I'm not
quite sure
>why...
>
>I've never actually heard of anyone assigning IP addresses to
user
>accounts...The IP address is a protocol hardware identifier,
akin to the MAC
>address, but for internet use (hence: [I]nternet [P]rotocol).
>
>As well, unless you are on a local LAN, using private IPs that
are isolated
>from the internet, domain names must be registered through
Internic, or
>similar. Unless you have paid for domain names to match these
IPs you have,
>you can't simply, and abirtrarily, assign an FQDN to an IP in
order to
>identify a user logged into your system. Not only would you be
screwing up
>the synchronisation of your ISP's DNS server, but if your user
is not logged
>in, packets sent to that domain will timeout for excessive hops
and e-mail
>would be returned to sender--domain not found. And running your
own DNS
>server won't fix this 'cause no one else's ISP is going to be
looking at
>your DNS server for information.
>
>What are you trying to do/accomplish? Are you trying to follow
something
>some else has already done? Or, are you guessing at the
possibility of
>giving each user their own "cool" domain name?
>
>--Greg
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "WarriorLee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> Hello, well the subject pritty much tells u everything u need
to know :P
>but
>> for if u aint read it :P does anyone know how to assign ip
address's to
>> usernames?
>>
>> thx
>>
>> Lee
>>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "cloak " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> 'lo all,
>>
>> I'm trying to make up a shell account that I can bind an IP to
>> for domain names.
>>
>> I have no idea where to start or where to look, can someone
point
>> me in the right direction? (I have a bunch of IPs and I want to
>> be able to do reverse DNS for a few accounts, which is why I
need
>> it to do this).
>>
>> TIA!
>>
>> Pete Jr.
>>
>
>
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