DNS Help Needed

[R-II]

Well, I'm a linux newbie trying to set up a running webserver. Currently, I have apache, perl, php, python, mysql (untested), ssi, etc all working under localhost doing thei jobs without complaint.

Now I want to take it to the next step, but as I quickly found out, DNS isn't easy, and for me, looks like living hell without some guidence.

So of course, you'll want to know some things or nothings going to really go anywhere. I'm using Bind, however, I'm not sure which version I'm running. It's either 8.1, 9.1.2, or 9.2.1. The named.conf seems to be hinting at 8.1, my doc directory has a folder for 9.1.2, and I just installed 9.2.1, allthough I'm not sure what happened to that really. Assuming I'm still using the default, I installed the current latest version of slackware linux, perhaps you'll know which version came with it.

I'm working with 1 static IP address. While I was looking around some other topics, I saw something about 2 addresses required, or using some online service? I still want to set up a DNS server however. Usually I just need a model to get going, but if you could describe some things out (as I've looked at several models and am still clueless), I'd really appreciate it :)

[chikn]

The .conf files for named are actually pretty straight forward and there are plenty of examples on the web (google search), howevere Webmin makes an easy job of adding new zones.

Heres a good site to get you startedBind Config (http://rute.sourceforge.net/node43.html)

[R-II]

Hmm, that site was pretty good in getting me started yes. I've edited the conf file and made the zones (and their conf files). My main concern is that within the example (disregarding the multiple-ip zone), there were 3 or 4 ip addresses used. I have 1 available ip address. Could anyone tell me how this would affect me / what I would have to do / change?

Also upon starting, I got one 'issue' that I'm not sure is significent or not.

couldn't add command channel 127.0.0.1#953: file not found

the 4 zones say they loaded their serial numbers

After this, I'm not quite sure what I do =/

[neotrace]

R-11 did you figure out the error you were getting?