Topic: Public DNS server

[Der_Rabe]

I noticed there is a RPM for making 5.5 and 5.6 a public DNS server.  Does anyone know if it works on 6.0.1.  

Maybe I am reading the desciption wrong but I would like my server to also do DNS serving.  Is this possible.  And is there an RPM to set this up for 6.0.1.

[crazybob]

Search is your friend.

Check out previous reply at

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=22204.0

bob

[Der_Rabe]

Thanks but I saw that already.  I am looking for one that is known to work on 6.0.1

[gelcube]

On a related note, the "hostnames" option in the server manager.  Can this be used to publicly serve the DNS for your own domains?  In other words, can I use the hostnames option, and point the domain record to my static IP when I register my domains?

[gbaird]

You must understand dns versus hostnames

domain name service is to deal with addresses

domain.com = 192.168.1.12
www = 192.168.1.12 which is domain.com
mail = 192.168.1.12 which is domain.com

www and mail are hostnames just like secure or box1 , ns1 , bigdog etc

dns changes name to ip number with proper dns you don't need to type in the www it will find domain.com the www is just a web identifer like ftp is

You will need to install a few files for sme to act as a dns server when sme is installed it is a caching only dns server
there are several articles on the public dns setup for sme
you will also need to register a host name with internic

ns or dns you cannot use just a domain name you have to register a full name like ns.domain.com ns or dns is just a simple way to identify it is a name-server

read up on dns you may not even want to do it yourself
alot of free services out there

dyndns
zoneedit

and many others

[gelcube]

Yes, I understand that.  I'm currently using Dyndns to host my DNS.  

But the hostnames options in the Server Manager, with the settings for "Self", "Local", and "Remote", as well as the "Global IP" option, led me to believe you could use that to handle your DNS serving for your own domains.  If not, what are these settings used for?