Topic: BT-ADSL

[Kevin Williams]

I already have a domain an e-mail with an existing ISP. I have had BT install ADSL with an Alcatel route with RJ45 connections. When I install e-smith where do I tell it about this account. I only want to use the BT box as a router but the e-smith installation wnats do do lots more i.e. have a local WWW.domain. Im getting confused. I can connect to the e-smith box over the network for administration OK but the connection through the BT  box just times out. Can anyone give me some general pointers. I noticed from another thread that someone else had problems and added some DNS IP entries to the resolv file., How do I get to the command prompt to do this ?   Sorry for the length its just been incredibly frustrating.

[Mark Fleeson]

Hi Kevin,

When BT set up your ADSL, they should have given you either a single or range of IP addresses, if they didn't then that means you're using dynamic addressing and I'm not sure I can help without checking more. If in configuration you give the router external ip address to your external network card and your internal card a local address, e-smith should sort out the sending traffic out through the router.

To modify the dns, again requires a question first, do you have virtual domains setup?, if you do then you can modify your dns map's but everytime you use the admin website to change a host details the changes will be lost and I'm not yet good enough at e-smith's syntax to tell you how to vary it.

What I did was go to /home/dns/var/named, where I found db. i.e. db.burninglight.co.uk, I used pico to edit the file and changed the www line to point at my external ip address of the website rather than my e-smith box. I just have to remember to remake the changes if I want to add a host.

Hope this help, any problems drop me a line.

Cheers

Mark
Burning Light Consultancy Ltd
mark@burninglight.co.uk