DNS Servers

[Mhaddy]

Hey there,

I'm running a RH7 webserver from behind a Netgear RT314 router - naturally, I only have one IP address to the outside world. However, what I'm looking to do is to run my own DNS servers (ns1.mydomain.com, ns2.mydomain.com) but since each name server needs a unique IP addy... I'm kind of SOL here. Is there any way I can get @home to give me another IP address pointing to the router? Or... is there some other way around this like having the webserver somehow in front of the router? Thanks,

[evulish]

Call up @home, sit on tech support for 11 hours, ask em about it. You probably have to pay for it. I don't know what the going IP rate is. 10$/ip maybe?

[Mhaddy]

$10/IP over 4 PC's. That's why I got a router, you get 3 IP's free (was using a HUB) but when I was going to set my webserver up that was the fourth IP and they don't even support more than three PC's on a network.

[bdl]

I think the real question should be: What do I want to run a DNS server for? More to the point, why do you need two? Think about the reasons you need to run DNS, where you want it served and what you wish to achieve in this. Post your answers and I can help you get setup properly. I honestly don't think having an external DNS server is what you want, and one IP should be enough to suit anyone's needs. I could be wrong. ;)

[Mhaddy]

The only reason why I want to run a DNS server is to have multiple domains point to my box and then have apache take care of them. I registered the one nameserver and thought that would be enough to have the domain point to my box (secondary nameserver is just left there from the old host) however when I try to ping that domain it doesn't even resolve.

There's my answers :)

[bdl]

Hmm. I'm not familiar with running Virtual Hosts on the same machine, but I know you can point several domains at the same IP, negating the need for any special DNS mapping on your part. Perhaps someone whos done this can shed some light...

[lm72]

Why not just use a service like hn.org?
You just have delagate the domain to their dns servers and have account with them wich free and that's it.


Alex :)

[ 27 July 2001: Message edited by: lm72 ]

[Mhaddy]

lm72 - www.dyndns.org (http://www.dyndns.org) offers this same service and I can use their DNS servers to point to my box and such (that's how I have my current domain set up) but I'd like to own my own DNS servers. If I come to a dead end where I just can't register ns2.mydomain.com then I will go for the service - but I want to make sure I have exhausted all my resources first ^_^

[The King Ant]

Have you tried just changing the domain info with your registrar so both the DNS servers point to the same IP address? See if they check for that or not. If it works, that's basically the same thing as using 2 different IPs that point to the same computer.

[bobby swartz]

why dont you try nat, its very efficient , youcan use nat software and install it on a gateway or you can buy a router which (and i think most do) support nat.
good luck

by the way i pay $10 for an extra ip from @home, im in canada.

[optimised]

Hello,
I've just recently got rid of comcast and now have sdsl. Anyway I also am running from behind an rt314 router 4 pc's total. My question is that I was provided 2 pulic ip addresses which I would like to use on my 2 linux/apache boxes for nameservers. How do you go about registering these ip addresses with internic for ex:172.x.x.x ns1.something.net and 172.x.x.x ns2.somthing.net my connection to the net is dhcp. Any help is desperatlely aaprieciated. :(

[Mhaddy]

King Ant - they (gkg.net) won't let me use the same IP addy for DNS servers, they have to be unique.

Bobby - where can I get Nat? ^_^

Optimised - I don't know how you go about doing that with Netsol but going to gkg.net will allow you to do it.

[optimised]

Mhaddy - Thanks for the tip on gkg.net

So I do need to register the two static ip addresses to be able to set up ns1 and ns2?

[Mhaddy]

No, when you goto register ns1.whatever.com the IP addresses that it points to has to be static.