11 Jan
2010
11 Jan
'10
11:18 p.m.
Hi Graeme,
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 09:00:40PM +0000, Graeme Simpson wrote:
I've signed up for a couple of domain names with
godaddy.com. I've bought
simmo.gs and goodwithwords.eu.
I'm not certain of the order I should be doing things and the
configuration I should be setting up on my debian vps box.
Okay, well first it depends what you want to achieve. I'm assuming
that you intend to install a DNS server, serve these two zones, and
have BitFolk provide secondary name servers.
Does anyone have any guidance they could offer? Or
even a sample zone
file that I could copy.
First you would want to pick which nameserver software you're going
to use. If you don't already have an opinion then BIND is a
reasonable choice as it's probably the most common and easiest to
find help and examples for. It's not necessarily the best, but it
will work.
After you've installed that, you will want to add zone files for each
of those zones, and add them to BIND's configuration. On
Debian/Ubuntu you would probably put a file in /etc/bind for each,
so maybe /etc/bind/db.simmo.gs and /etc/bind/db.goodwithwords.eu.
Then in named.conf.local you would have a config stanza for each, a
bit like:
zone "simmo.gs" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/db.simmo.gs";
};
Similar for goodwithwords.eu.
Each of these zone files might be something like:
$TTL 86400
@ SOA ns.simmo.gs. hostmaster.simmo.gs. (
2010011101 ; Serial - YYYYMMDDXX
14400 ; Refresh (4hrs)
900 ; Retry (15 mins)
1209600 ; Expire (2 weeks)
3600) ; Minimum (1 hour)
; Useful doc for above SOA values:
; http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-203.html
NS ns.simmo.gs.
NS a.authns.bitfolk.com.
NS b.authns.bitfolk.com.
NS c.authns.bitfolk.com.
MX 5 mail.simmo.gs.
A 212.13.195.X
ns A 212.13.195.X
www CNAME simmo.gs.
The "hostmaster.simmo.gs" part is an email address (replace first .
with @), so make it something that does or will work for contact
purposes.
The NS list assumes that you wish to have BitFolk provide secondary
DNS for you. If you don't then put whatever nameservers in that you
will be using. Most registrars will want to see at least 2.
Get these zone files loaded, make sure the logs show that nothing is
wrong, and make sure you can query your name server for the records,
e.g.:
$ dig +noall +answer -t soa taras.net @212.13.194.70
taras.net. 86400 IN SOA a.authns.bitfolk.com.
hostmaster.bitfolk.com. 2009111001 14400 7200 1209600 43200
(substituting your domains for taras.net and your IP for
212.13.194.70)
Once that works, if you're wanting BitFolk to provide some more
servers then it's time to drop a line to support(a)bitfolk.com asking
for that.
At this point you are ready to tell your registrar(s) what
nameservers to use for each domain. Exactly how that is done varies
from registrar to registrar.
After you've done that, the servers you've listed with your
registrars and in your zones should start to receive queries.
"dig" command line tool and squishy dns check:
http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/
are very useful debugging tools - use those and post back here if
you have problems you can't solve.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting