From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 6 11:20:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.itech-usa.com (unknown [63.122.15.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88AA737B503 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:19:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 72114 invoked by uid 89); 6 Feb 2001 19:21:12 -0000 Message-ID: <20010206192112.72113.qmail@mail.itech-usa.com> References: <20010206205708.A54391@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <20010206205708.A54391@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> From: "Domain Owner" To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FBSD-ISP Subject: Re: Managing DNS Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 19:21:12 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Maybe this will help: Someone else mentioned that you could have a single NAMED DB file for multiple domains, the problem would be that the IP addresses for the services would all be the same. You didn't mention what server software you are using, but I am assuming you are using APACHE 1.3.4 or later with Virtual Webhosting setup. The only way to use the same DNS Entries is to shift your IP based configuration to a NAME BASED Virtual Hosting configuration in Apache. If you are using FTP, this may also be a challenge depending on which FTPD you are using. We use PROFTPD because it is similar in configuartion and features to APACHE. I use IP based on my server, but I believe that NAMED-BASED may be what you want to look into if you are concerned about IP Address allocation. You might also want to consider using QMAIL if you arent already. The packages are located in the ports directory: Apache Daemon: /usr/ports/www/apache-modssl http://www.apache.org ProFTP Daemon: /usr/ports/ftp/proftpd http://www.proftpd.org Qmail Daemon: /usr/ports/mail/qmail http://www.qmail.org - Chris Tusa webmaster@oswars.net Odhiambo Washington writes: > 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? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message