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From: "Mark Radabaugh" <mark@amplex.net>
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Subject: RE: Managing DNS
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:07:19 -0500
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This won't work if you are not using virtual hosting but we set up a generic
zone file for each web server like this:

$TTL 26400
@       IN      SOA     bsd.amplex.net. support.amplex.net.        (
<blah blah>
@               IN      A       209.57.124.27
@       600     IN      MX      10      mailsrv.amplex.net.
www             IN      A       209.57.124.27
ftp             IN      A       209.57.124.27
mail            IN      CNAME   pop3.amplex.net.
pop3            IN      CNAME   pop3.amplex.net.
smtp            IN      CNAME   smtp.amplex.net.
stmp            IN      CNAME   smtp.amplex.net.

and then just keep using that in the named.conf file:

zone "dynamicsmfg.com" {
        type master;
        file "web.virtuals.dns";
};

zone "myphotovideo.com" {
        type master;
        file "web.virtuals.dns";
};


BIND doesn't care that the same file is referenced for different domains.  The
only time you need to make a different zone file is if the customer needs
something special.  We don't worry about reverse DNS for virtual hosted
customers - the reverse points to the web servers name.

I'm sure there are even better solutions using databases...

Mark Radabaugh
VP, Amplex
(419)833-3635
mark@amplex.net




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Odhiambo Washington
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:57 PM
> To: FBSD-ISP
> Subject: Managing DNS
>
>
> Hi
> I was beginning to think that there is an easier way of managing
> hosted domains than
> we're doing now. We're an ISP and we do host quite a good number of
> domains for
> clients. These are mainly in the .KE but we also have .COM etc. Now we have to
> enter those domain names for both Forward and reverse lookups. We do have a db
> file for each domain that we host and most of the time the only
> difference in the
> db file would be a static IP we've allocated a domain and possibly an A record
> for a web page hosted elsewhere.
>
> Isn't it possible to have a single db file for ALL these hosted domains?
> What methods are others using out there?
>
> TIA
>
> -Wash
>
> --
> Odhiambo Washington  Inter-Connect Ltd.,
> wash@iconnect.co.ke  5th Flr Furaha Plaza
> Tel: 254 11 222604   Nkrumah Rd.,
> Fax: 254 11 222636   PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE.
>
> Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.
>
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