Topic: Who's got the DNS?

[Quade]

Does E-smith 4 have any sort of DNS server integrated into it?  I'm downloading it tonight, so I hope so.

I hate my current and previous ISPs because DNS entries are a pain, not to mention costly. However, they are DSL and cable (respectively) and therefore I will have to use one of them.

If E-Smith can run a simple DNS server, my days as a happy kind of guy will be infinite.

Thanks,
Quade

p.s., I have to say, I've been using E-Smith since version 3, and absolutely love it.  Tell you what -- if you have a DNS server to go along with E-Smith (or a *simple* way of adding it) I'll throw down the 600 bucks for a copy just to have it.

[Quade]

OK, something I forgot to ask...

How do I set up subdomains to point to a different IP address?

I have 5 static IPs.  The first IP is the E-Smith dedicated server and gateway.  The second IP has a dedicated game server.  The remaining three IPs belong to myself, and roommates.

My domain, thegeekhouse.com, points to the first IP and is handled by the E-Smith server.  I want www.thegeekhouse.com to point to the first IP, but I want games.thegeekhouse.com to point to the second IP address.  I also want quade.thegeekhouse.com to point to the third IP (my computer), and so on...

Is there any way to make E-Smith do this?

TIA,
Quade

[Charlie Brady]

Quade wrote:

> I have 5 static IPs.  The first IP is the E-Smith dedicated
> server and gateway.  The second IP has a dedicated game server.
> The remaining three IPs belong to myself, and roommates.
>
> My domain, thegeekhouse.com, points to the first IP and is
> handled by the E-Smith server.  I want www.thegeekhouse.com to
> point to the first IP, but I want games.thegeekhouse.com to
> point to the second IP address.  I also want
> quade.thegeekhouse.com to point to the third IP (my computer),
> and so on...
>
> Is there any way to make E-Smith do this?

Not without serious changes. The e-smith server and gateway is designed to share a single internet connection (with a single IP address) with a network of computers on a LAN. The LAN computers don't need internet reachable IP addresses. Moreover, the e-smith box is designed to *prevent* any direct connection from the internet to the LAN computers.

Regards

Charlie

[Noah Berlove]

Quade wrote:

> Does E-smith 4 have any sort of DNS server integrated into it?
> I'm downloading it tonight, so I hope so.
>

Running a DNS server on the same machine as your e-smith server/gateway probably isn't the best idea.

> I hate my current and previous ISPs because DNS entries are a
> pain, not to mention costly. However, they are DSL and cable
> (respectively) and therefore I will have to use one of them.
>

I, too, have found that ISP's and web hosting copanies are the wrong people to host your DNS records.  I have had much better luck with companies which only provide DNS hosting.  Checkout any of the following: granitecanyon.com, easydns.com, dnsconsole.com or dnswiz.com.  GraniteCanyon is free, while the others charge around $25-50/yr.  I am sure there are others.

> If E-Smith can run a simple DNS server, my days as a happy kind
> of guy will be infinite.

I take it from this you have never actually run a DNS server before!

Noah

[robert burnham]

>p.s., I have to say, I've been using E-Smith since version 3, and absolutely love it. Tell you what -- if you have a
>  DNS server to go along with E-Smith (or a *simple* way of adding it) I'll throw down the 600 bucks for a copy >just to have it.
I've just done what your asking about. All I did was add a file in /var/named  called mydomain.com (or whatever your domain is called.) This file was similar to one in there called named.primarydomain except it pointed to my servers external ip range and name, etc. ( I had to learn about DNS before I got the file right) Then I added a new line in  /etc/named.conf to point to the file ( like the other entries do to their existing files).
NOTE:  I also have a registered domain with networksolutions and changed the entry with them to point to my server.
After a few days, when all the dns's got updated, it worked. I also talked my buddy into running a secondary DNS server for my domain and he pointed his records to my server. That helped speed up the process .