newbie, needs direction PLEASE

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Mon Dec 22 22:59:57 UTC 2003


Miron wrote:

>I am desperately trying to learn here and ending up more and more confused.
>Could someone please direct me to the information that I need to
>read/understand to do the following?  I would be MOST appreciative!
>
>I need a single Red Hat 8 (or other) machine to be able to host multiple
>websites.  Due to limited number static ip's, I know I need to implement a
>DNS based hosting scenerio.
>
>These multiple sites (which will not be all that large, and when the time
>comes, redundant servers will be in place...) need be able to have their own
>http and mail traffic with unique email addresses.
>
>Can someone please direct me here?
>
Basically it sounds like you need to set up these domains and point the 
website names (with A and/or CNAME records) and mail routes (with MX 
records) to your central server. Also, the webserver on your box needs 
to be able to distinguish the different "virtual host" website names, 
and the mail server needs to know to accept mail for each of the domains 
pointed at it.

For the DNS portion of this, you can't really go wrong with the O'Reilly 
_DNS_and_BIND_ book...

                                                                         
                                       - Kevin




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