Clueless and desperate

I have been trying to configure Apache and my dns so that queries to a
domain name I own come to my server. I have been battling with it for a
while and seem to be making absolutely no progress. I have registered with
everydns and set up an account for my domain name, I put A as the type and
my IP number as the value. I'm wondering how I set up BIND and Apache at
my end to pick up queries to this domain name.

I'm running Lunux RedHat 9 with Apache 2.something

I'd really appreciate some advice.

Cheers,

Adam

Brand-X <bunnysquash@nospamhotmail.com> wrote:
> my IP number as the value. I'm wondering how I set up BIND and Apache at
> my end to pick up queries to this domain name.

If you have an external DNS service, you don't need YOUR OWN DNS
server, unless you registered your machine as primary DNS for your
domain. For the rest, just have Apache listening on every IP and
that's it. Unless you want to run multiple domains on the same
machine, in this case you have to configure virtual hosts.

For recap: you don't need to configure Bind if you don't want.

Davide

It was a dark and stormy night, and Brand-X managed to scribble:

> I have been trying to configure Apache and my dns so that queries to a
> domain name I own come to my server. I have been battling with it for a
> while and seem to be making absolutely no progress. I have registered with
> everydns and set up an account for my domain name, I put A as the type and
> my IP number as the value. I'm wondering how I set up BIND and Apache at
> my end to pick up queries to this domain name.
>
> I'm running Lunux RedHat 9 with Apache 2.something
>
> I'd really appreciate some advice.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adam

You ALREADY have a DNS server for the domain/IP address - you are using easydns. DNS can take 3 days or even lonmger to propagate thru the network.

Is the IP number correct? Check with your ISP

From your server run the following:
ping 999.999.999.999 (your IP address - should be an immediate response)
ping yourdomain.com (your domain - should be an immediate response)
dig yourdomain.com (should show the right name servers, IP addresses, etc)


If you can't get it working post the results of these 3 commands.

gtoomey