Re: [cobalt-users] Virtual nameservers for clients

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Server wrote:

> We want to give some of our resellers their own virtual dns servers.... I
> know you can simply use another IP on the box, name it dns.whatever and it
> will work.... But this doesn't work for some European dns organisations
> where your nameservers have to be setup correctly before they give you a
> domain.... ( *.IT *.LU ).... In this cases they always deny virtual
> nameservers because when they check the dns the get answered by the root dns
> server and this is another name than the one of the reseller....

We've run secondary DNS for European domains before, using virtual DNS
servers.  Here are the steps we've taken to make it work:

1) register the nameserver with the registration authority as a
nameserver (this is NOT the same as assigning the nameserver to the
domain; it's NOT the same as creating a DNS entry for the nameserver.

2) properly set up NS records for all the nameservers in the SOA section
of DNS on your RaQ.

3) If you're running both primary and secondary DNS on the same server,
then do NOT use secondary records in your DNS; that's only for secondary
servers that aren't also primary servers.

4) Make sure the DNS is properly set up BEFORE you make the changes at
the registrar.

That's what's worked for us in the past, and as far as I can tell; the
domains are still working.

> I think I did read somewhere how you can make bind/named listen to more IP's
> but can't find it anywhere anymore.... A search on the cobalt users list
> didn't give me a result....

As BSmith pointed out, your named server listens on all IP#s on the
RaQ.  To make sure bind is listening, just make sure you have a website
(even a dummy website) set up to use that IP#.

Jeff
-- 
Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux and Cobalt/Sun/RaQ Consulting
nobaloney.net, P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA  92517
voice: +1 909 778-9980  *  fax: +1 909 548-9484