Can I make it simpler?

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Hi

Thanks for replying.

Apologies but my example wasn't very good.
What I actually meant to wrote was something like...

first.test.co.uk.       IN      A       192.168.0.9
second.website.com.       IN      A       192.168.0.9
third.website.org.       IN      A       192.168.0.9

where all the test website domain names are quite different.

Can I setup a zone for all my locally run websites, instead of creating a
separate zone for each one?

No,  If the domains are different, then, the Zones are different. You may
want to write a perl script to handle zone creation.



Thanks for your help!

         PAULLY


At 17:15 14/05/2002, you wrote:

>Paul,
>
>If test.co.uk is your domain, then yes, your A records:
>
>first.test.co.uk.       IN      A       192.168.0.9
>second.test.co.uk.       IN      A       192.168.0.9
>third.test.co.uk.       IN      A       192.168.0.9
>
>
>would do exactly what you are looking for.  However, with all the
hostnames
>referencing the same IP, your apache config would have to use header
>parsing to direct each request to the correct site depending on the domain
>name used...
>
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Dave...
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>Hi
>
>I have a 6 machine local network on the address range 192.168.0.
>
>192.168.0.1  -  Netgear Router
>192.168.0.3  -  Windows 98
>192.168.0.5  -  Windows Me
>192.168.0.9  -  Windows 2000
>192.168.0.10 -  Linux Client
>192.168.0.12 -  Linux Server (DHCP,DNS,Apache,PERL,Sendmail)
>
>I run test websites on my Linux Server which has DNS running quite
>happily. All the different types of clients can find the test
>websites.
>
>As I understand it, for each website I want to test locally, I have to
>create a separate DNS file for BIND. Here is what I currently have
>(using examples)...
>
>/etc/named.conf:
>zone "test.co.uk" {
>         type master;
>         file "test.co.uk.hosts";
>};
>
>/var/named/test.co.uk.hosts:
>$ttl 38400
>test.co.uk.       IN      SOA     localhost. root.localhost. (
>                         1021366364
>                         10800
>                         3600
>                         604800
>                         38400 )
>test.co.uk.       IN      NS      localhost.
>test.co.uk.       IN      A       192.168.0.9
>
>...but is there a simpler way to create entries for all the test
>websites IN JUST ONE FILE?
>
>e.g.
>
>first.test.co.uk.       IN      A       192.168.0.9
>second.test.co.uk.       IN      A       192.168.0.9
>third.test.co.uk.       IN      A       192.168.0.9
>
>They will all run from the same apache machine.
>Hope you can help!
>
>PAULLY