DNS newbie

[AdamJBaldwin]

I am planning on setting up a test domain on my Debian starter server. I have read up on creating virtual name-based domains in apache, but now I am trying to find out how to configure BIND to recognize my domain name.

I am not using my own name servers, I am using serverbeach's DNS tool. The two nameservers I have gathered are ns1.geodns.net, ns2.geodns.net.

I have tried to do with with a redhat box before, but gave up. I gather it is probabaly fairly routine, but nevertheless I would appreciate some help.

I have 2 books on DNS setup, but all refer to BIND and DNS using my own nameservers. I am not sure how to do it with serverbeach's.

Could someone give me a quick example, guide me to a website, or give me a thread that explains how to setup the communication between serverbeach's nameservers and my Debian BIND program through webmin?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks!
-Adam J Baldwin

[knightfoo]

Originally posted by AdamJBaldwin
I am planning on setting up a test domain on my Debian starter server. I have read up on creating virtual name-based domains in apache, but now I am trying to find out how to configure BIND to recognize my domain name.

I am not using my own name servers, I am using serverbeach's DNS tool. The two nameservers I have gathered are ns1.geodns.net, ns2.geodns.net.

I have tried to do with with a redhat box before, but gave up. I gather it is probabaly fairly routine, but nevertheless I would appreciate some help.

I have 2 books on DNS setup, but all refer to BIND and DNS using my own nameservers. I am not sure how to do it with serverbeach's.

Could someone give me a quick example, guide me to a website, or give me a thread that explains how to setup the communication between serverbeach's nameservers and my Debian BIND program through webmin?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks!
-Adam J Baldwin

If you are using the DNS Tool to manage DNS for your domains, you don't need to set up the domains in BIND on your own server. Actually, you do not want to set up the domains on your own server because it could lead to confusion when troubleshooting DNS problems. As long as you have valid resolvers listed in your /etc/resolv.conf, you do not need to do anything special with BIND on your server.

-knightfoo