Re: [cobalt-users] newbie - dns question

[Cody Watkins <codyw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:56 AM 7/2/2000 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>I am a new user of the RAQ3 - this week ! Would love a little bit of startup
>help.
>
>First question (:-)
>I have a box set up with, for now, I believe, both primary and secondary
>DNS. At least that is what my system shows in the GUI system page. These are
>on sep IP's.
>
>I have gone into the GUI DNS properties and put in A records (with reverse
>PTRs) for my DNS files - web.ozdns.net & web2.ozdns.net and have added
>www.ozdns.net & ozdns.net
>
>Now how do I ensure that my secondary dns (web2.ozdns.net) gets updated with
>this information and any subsequent domains I add (either virtual ip based
>or virtual name based). I am confused in the GUI between add secondary for
>domain and add secondary for IP. All my changes seem to be hitting the
>primary (?) - how doi I create the records in the secondary (through the GUI
>preferably)


-I believe since both name servers are on the same box, once you add your
regular DNS stuff to the GUI, it adds it to both the Primary and Secondary.


>(I will be looking for someone soon to act as a secondary for me and I will
>act as a secondary for them)
>
>Second Question
>I have been supplied by my NOC (dialtone) with an additional 5 IP's that I
>want to set up on my box for IP based names (one will be the base for some
>name based sites others will be straight sites). Do I need to do anything on
>the box to register  these IPs or will referring to them in the DNS do this.


-I think Dialtone pings everybody's IP's to see if they are being used.
After a few weeks of an IP being dead, they take the unused IP away from
you and re-assign it to someone else. To get a new one you have to go
through the request process again. So you should create a Virtual Site for
each IP as soon as you can.


Sincerely,
Cody Watkins
Paradox Web Hosting
www.paradoxwebhosting.com