Re: [cobalt-users] Thanks & another question

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:50 AM 2/2/00  hyrb wrote:
> Thanks fo rthe answer on sub-domains. I understand it as in order to have 
> steve.domain.com and domain.com be seperate web
> sites they must have dedicated IP addresses even on the raq 3.

I just tried it; here's what works:

I've got a site on my RaQ2 called "www.encopresis.org".  It's got a generic 
html page there; it says:

  Welcome to The Encopresis
  Support Group

   We're still in the process of moving into our
   New home here. Please check back soon.

You can look for yourself.  It's at IP# 209.126.157.72 and the 
<encopresis.org>, <www.encopresis.org>, AND the IP#, all point to the same 
site, the one one that says "Welcome to The Encopresis Support Group" and 
has the yellow car silhouette on it.  Because of the default 
header-rewriting rules the RaQ uses, if you use <encopresis.org>, it'll get 
rewritten and show up in your browser as <www.encopresis.org>.  Okay.  Just 
as it should be.

I just set up a site on the RaQ2 for:
  IP#: 209.126.157.72
  Hostname: www
  Domain name: foobar.encopresis.org

I left the RaQ-generated default site there.  The one that says "Welcome to 
the Web Site of www.foobar.encopresis.org".

Then I set up my dns with cnames for <foobar.encopresis.org> and 
<www.foobar.encopresis.org>; see below:

> ;       encopresis.org  domain lookup file
>
> @        IN SOA    ns1.ns-one.net. domain_control.ns-one.net. (
>             200002021300 ; serial number
>             43200      ; refresh every 12 hours
>             7200       ; retry after 2 hours
>             1209600    ; expire after 2 weeks
>             43200)     ; default ttl is 12 hours
>
>
> ; NS
> @       IN      NS      ns1.ns-one.net.
> @       IN      NS      ns2.ns-one.net.
> @       IN      NS      ns3.ns-one.net.
>
> ; MX
> @       IN      MX      10      mail.encopresis.org.
>
> ; A
> @       IN      A       209.126.157.72
> mail    IN      A       209.126.128.251
> www     IN      A       209.126.157.72
>
> ; CNAME
> foobar  IN      CNAME   www
> ftp     IN      CNAME   www
> www.foobar      IN      CNAME   www

To see the results, just try both <www.foobar.encopresis.org> and 
<foobar.encopresis.org> in your browser; you'll see that they both go to 
the same generic RaQ generated homepage, which is in a completely separate 
website directory on the RaQ.  Even though they all point to the same IP#, 
you DO get the two separate pages.  Again, because of the rewriting rules, 
<either one ends up looking like <www.foobar.encopresis.org> in your browser.

I didn't bother to set up mail, but if I had, all I'd have to do is check 
the box "Accept Email for Domain", and add an MX record line in the zone file:

> foobar       IN      MX      10      mail.encopresis.org.

Clear as mud, right <smile>?

I'll leave the example up for about 48 hours for anyone who wants to look 
at it <smile>.

> I'm having a real problem with either internic or my DNS.  A domain I 
> moved to my server from another host will not show.
> All DNS updates have been done and A records have been created for 
> www.domain.com and domian.com in my DNS.

Print out your zone file (see sample above) and either send it to me 
privately or post it to the list.  Yes, I really need to see the real 
domain name and zone file to help you debug this one.

> Who Is for domain.com comes up with the proper owner & DNS routing.  Who 
> Is for WWW.domain.com comes up that the domain is
> not registered and asks if I want to....

Did you read the directions for whois?  Probably not.  It only finds 
second-level domains (one "dot").  It does NOT find third-level or higher 
domains (two or more "dots").  So nothing wrong here. <www.domain.com> 
doesn't show for any domain in the world.

> In attempting to access the site.  I get the previous host part of the 
> time, my raq, and domain not found at od intervals.  I
> mailed network solutions last week but that is as effective as mailing Cobalt.

It could be a Network Solutions issue, but I rather doubt it.  It's 
probably a DNS or DNS propogation issue.  Send me the stuff I asked for 
above, and I'll trouble shoot it for you <smile>.

(Gee, I'm getting good at this; Cobalt, do you want to hire me?  I'm only 
$75/hour <smile>.)

Jeff

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