Dns
 

anybody have experience setting up a DNS server on a Mandrake 8 box?

I want to put a DNS server on the new force team webserver.

--Petey

I run Bind9 for all my sites on a Debian box. What is your question exactly?

I have no experience with DNS. I have a few webservers running, and want to set one of them up so I can do all the DNS I need for my websites myself. My registrar gives me limited subdomains, and I need more. Also, I plan on providing DNS as a service.

Can you lay out what I'd need to go through? Is it possible to run a DNS server on a box that is already being used as a webserver?

Can you at least point me to a site that would have helpful how-tos?

--Petey

chiefdelphi.com has everything running on one box. apache, mail, both dns servers, etc..

yeah, that's what I want to do for www.theforceteam.com.

I actually got some help from iMike at www.4osx.com, so it should be working now. Thanks to everyone who replied to this thread.

--Petey

Why do you have two DNS servers running on one machine? I understand the need for redundant DNS servers...but doesn't it usually work better when on different machines?

If DNS goes down .. the site goes down. If the site goes down .. DNS isn't much help. We didn't have another machine readily available, either, so this works just fine. :)

If you only have one IP, it's always best to have a friend to do your secondary or use secondary.org or something.