Complete newbie

[Kevin Darcy]

It's generally not a good idea to host a DNS zone on a dynamic address (even
though you may have been lucky so far, don't assume you'll always get the same
address from DHCP forever). If the address ever changes, you would need to not
only update the records in your own domain, but also in the parent domain.
Also, any slaves for the zone would need to have their zone-transfer parameters
updated to reflect the new address. Basically it's very messy and you'll be at
least partially broken until it all gets changed over.

If you can somehow get a static address, e.g. buy that as a value-added service
from your ISP, and you want to start hosting your domain, then you'd need some
delegation records from the parent domain which should match the NS records in
the zone itself. You need *two* nameservers for every zone, for purposes of
redundancy, preferably on different networks, but it would probably be OK if
you could convince your ISP to be a slave for your zone.

Once you have that zone delegated and set up, you can add anything you want
under it. See how to set up master zones in the documentation that comes with
BIND 9 and/or the _DNS_and_BIND_ book from O'Reilly. That'll answer your
questions about rndc-confgen too...


- Kevin

DvDmanDT wrote:

> Hmm... Guess noone felt like helping me then... Do you guys think tha Apache
> ppl will answer my questions? I really want answers... BIND seems good...
>
> --
> // DvDmanDT
> MSN: dvdmandt at hotmail.com
> Mail: dvdmandt at telia.com
> "DvDmanDT" <dvdmandt at telia.com> skrev i meddelandet
> news:bg3p7f$20vi$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> > Hello everyone... I'm a complete newbie to BIND... I'm familar with Apache
> > and PHP, running my little private server.. I use uni.cc as my current
> > 'domain', I use their NS currently... Say I got example.uni.cc... And say
> my
> > IP is 123.132.231.213... I have an ADSL connetion... I get my IP using
> > DHCP... Is it even possible to setup my own DNS server then? Assuming my
> IP
> > never changes as it has been the same last 6 months or so...
> >
> > If it's possible, how do I setup it all... I installed BIND 9.2.2 into
> > G:\Windows\system32\dns... What would I type in rndc.conf (and what is
> rndc?
> > I'm completely new like I said), what would I type in names.conf (well,
> not
> > sure about the name, but you understand which file I mean), and what in
> that
> > key file that rndc-confgen -a created?
> >
> > What I want is the following:
> > I have mod_l33t installed on Apache (lets me have subdomains like
> > downloads.example.uni.cc and so on, like vhosts), with some subdomains...
> As
> > I said, I use uni.cc's DNS server ("A" and "MX" (at UNI.CC' DNS))... I can
> > change that option to "NS (For external name servers)" as they call the
> > options... Then I'm supposed to enter two Nameservers... What should I
> type
> > in those? My ip? My Myserver.org (Dynamic DNS sub's) domain? Also, maybe I
> > for some reason would like otherserver.example.uni.cc to point to some
> other
> > IP... How would I do that? Case you wonder: l33t.ca allowed this
> somehow...
> >
> > Any links / comments / files are greatly appreciated... Thanks in
> advance...
> > // DvDmanDT
> > MSN: dvdmandt at hotmail.com
> > Mail: dvdmandt at telia.com
> >
> >