Okay, so I have a job to finish, and I just can't figure out DNS, can't wrap my head around it.
Here's the situation using fictitious PUBLIC routable IP addreses.
Say I have a domain, say it's lizdomain.com
Say I have that registered with godaddy.
Say I want to host it myself on an Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy server. Say I also want that same server to do the DNS, and be the mailserver for this zone:
I know I need the following.
A zone configuration file
an SOA (???!)
proper configuration of a file called named.conf in /etc/bind/ (jailed elsewhere, but that's all working)
a reverse DNS i think ptr file.
other stuff.
So what I'd like to know is.
what files to I need to edit, where do I find them, and what should they look like, how do they talk to the other DNS servers in the world, and basically what would a proper bind9 setup look like for:
lizdomain.com
web server public IP: 99.1.1.99
DNS server same (use loopback here?)
mail server same
machine's hostname is lizserver1
HELP with DNS bind9 ARIN zones named.conf etc.?
Well DNS is complicated but shouldn't be that difficult to get setup.
First I would registrer your DNS servers with GoDaddy also. you have to the dns server also has to be setup with ICANN for it to work SO start with registering your DNS server. It usually is "free" as an addon to your domain. If the server is lizserver1
