[Tfug] vps/Fedora Core 4/Bind 9

[Adrian]

On Friday 06 October 2006 13:17, keith smith wrote:
> I have a VPS that I was able to get the DNS to work but it keeps stopping.  
If I start it, it works fine for a while.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knows of a simple and I do mean simple online 
reference for bind that might help me configure virtual web hosting and email 
named server using Bind 9
> 

I guess I don't understand the question. You say your named keeps stopping on 
its own, which sounds like a problem... but then you want bind to do virtual 
web hosting and email??? It does neither. That's what Apache/Tux and 
Sendmail/Postfix/etc. are for.

As for named stopping... I think everyone here would have to see some logs. I 
suppose their might be a configuration error but if it works for a while... 
Maybe someone knows something special about named in a VPS. Wild guess: could 
it be that the VPS crashes/reboots (perhaps the master is running out of 
memory and killing off hosted VPSes)? What is the uptime when you log back 
in?

For virtual hosting... it is a pretty simple configuration for Apache. Just 
enable the virtual hosting by giving it the IP address (which will host 
multiple FQDNs) and then an entry for each FQDN'd host website. Something 
like:

NameVirtualHost 172.16.1.23:80

<VirtualHost www.myweb.ccm:80>
  ServerAdmin webmaster at myweb.ccm
  DocumentRoot /var/www/www.myweb.ccm/html/
  ServerName www.myweb.ccm
  ErrorLog logs/www_myweb_ccm
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost www.secondweb.ccm:80>
  ServerAdmin webmaster at secondweb.ccm
  DocumentRoot /var/www/www.secondweb.ccm/html/
  ServerName www.secondweb.ccm
  ErrorLog logs/www_secondweb_ccm
</VirtualHost>

As for virtual email... there are a number of different ways depending on how 
you want to handle email boxes (i.e. whether all lumped together or separate 
for each user at domain). The simplest, lumping all domain users together, is 
pretty simple in Postfix, just add the system user and then add the different 
"hosted" email domains (separated by commas) to the mydestination= directive 
in main.cf. I.e.:

mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, myweb.ccm, secondweb.ccm


Adrian