A DNS Server

**QuickDraw** · 08-18-2003

Heya guys ... I was pondering something this weekend when working on my shell for my eggies and some other things, and i was wondering ... how exactly do they create those spiffy vhosts .. like mine is *blushes* my.girlfriend.dumped.me.cuz.i.was.toogoofy.com (don't ask) and i was just wondering how in the heck they can do that. my shell provider runs Redhat on their serves, so it dawned on me that I should be able to do the same thing with a few domains i have registered. but i talked to my friend who runs my ISP and he gave me some speech about registrating crap other then the domain name and blah blah blah was about all i heard after about ten minutes. Sooo ... to some up this novel of a post, could i just use something as simple as the DNS server i installed when i first installed RH8? and if so .. is it easy to do or should i look elsewhere to learn a abit more about it. ?

as always ... thanks for any and all help guys,
-Brandon C. Brown

**sarumont** · 08-19-2003

What exactly is it that you want to do? It may just be me, but I can't figure it out from your post.

**flw** · 08-20-2003

At least I wasn't the only one confused

**bluegroper** · 08-20-2003

Me 3

**Giro** · 08-20-2003

Sub domains arnt anything to do with DNS its your server. What server are you using if its apache read these ->

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/examples.html

and

http://www.cfdev.com/apache/virtualhosts.cfm

**QuickDraw** · 08-20-2003

basically what i meant to get at was something simpler then the way i tried to explain it. okay ... here is a scenario that i may want to do.

I want to run my own webserver right? right. to do that i know i would need to use a web serving program .. and most likely that would be Apache. thats all up and running and everything is honky dory ... but what then? well then i would need to know the box's IP in order for people to be able to visit the site, correct? correct. BUT ... what if i wanted to change the Numeral IP to a registered domain I have. ie ... lets say my IP is like

62.134.32.44 but instead of always wanting that, i'd rather have it set up so that people could type in www.hacky-sack.net into their browser and go straight to the site. I always thought that had to do with DNS servers and what not.

**Giro** · 08-20-2003

I get you now. You will have to use some type of dynamic DNS service. I use www.dyndns.org but just search google for more.

**QuickDraw** · 08-20-2003

hey Ol Man, I checked out that site and read around a bit and couldn't quite understand what it was saying it provided. could it work for a dynamic IP like mine since i am only on a dial up? if so then that would be pretty awesome.

**big_k105** · 08-20-2003

it looked to my like it supported dynamic ips i was looking into it cause that would be nice to way to resovle the changing ip on my cable modem. but i dont know if it would work well with my modem. but it looks like it works fine with dynamic ip

**Giro** · 08-20-2003

Yes its used for dynamic ip's. Thay have got many clients for updating your ip i use the ddclient. But they have a few scripts and programs for windows so you can update your ip on all machines. There a good service i have a few custom accounts with them.

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