Multiple domains on one server
Rick Knight
rick at rlknight.com
Wed Nov 24 19:41:16 UTC 2004
Kevin Darcy wrote:
> Rick Knight wrote:
>
>
>>Hope someone can answer this for me, I've searched the 'net looking for an
>>answer but can't quite find one.
>>
>>I own two domains, home.com and sales.com. Currently I have home.com up
>>and running, without any problems, on a single server. My DNS seems to be
>>working perfectly along with ftp and www servers. Now I've configured the
>>server with an additional IP address for sales.com. I want to add
>>sales.com to my existing DNS so that I will have both home.com and
>>sales.com running on the same server with seperate IPs. How do I go about
>>doing this? Is it possible? I keep finding hints about it but nothing
>>concrete.
>>
>
> I'll assume your question is about how to get two DNS zones served from
> a nameserver with multiple interfaces. BIND will by default listen on
> all active interfaces, so there's no special configuration needed. It'll
> even scan periodically for new interfaces (the scan frequency is
> configurable and can even be set to 0 if all of your interfaces are
> static). Just define the sales.com and home.com zones in named.conf,
> delegate sales.com to that server (and its slave(s)), just like you've
> already delegated home.com, and start serving both zones.
>
> Optionally, you could have a different name resolve to the second IP
> address and delegate sales.com to that (and its slave(s)). But frankly,
> I don't see why you'd go through the administrative bother of doing
> that. Some experts recommend that you delegate exclusively to names that
> are in the zone being delegated, but personally I regard that as wishful
> thinking on their parts.
>
> BTW, if by any chance you're thinking about trying to satisfy the "at
> least 2 nameservers for every zone" rule by running both "nameservers"
> on the same box, think again -- the whole purpose of the rule is to
> ensure redundancy, and you don't get much of that when you run both on a
> single box.
>
> As for getting multiple virtual hosts defined in your webserver, that's
> off-topic for this list...
>
>
> - Kevin
>
>
>
Sorry for the triple post. I didn't realize this list was moderated.
Thought the messages had not gone through for other reasons.
Thanks,
Rick Knight
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