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Living Room / a little linux DNS/DHCP help requested
« on: April 05, 2007, 04:32 PM »
Hello! I'm having a problem setting up my FC5 box (I'm in iraq, and my FC6 DVD got ruined. Go figure.) The problem is as follows:
I've created a sweet website with lots of information pertaining to all the people living near us, I have all the hardware set up, and I've got apache/php/mysql running great on my linux box. I have BIND installed, and I assume it's working correctly since it starts up fine. Here's what I'd like to do:
I need to get my *NIX server working as a DCHP/DNS server, and have all requests meant for ANY website to be redirected back to the *NIX box (127.0.0.1). I've been using the DHCP on one of our routers to assign IP's to clients so far, but that's just until I get it working on the *NIX box. For now the *NIX box is on a seperate switch connected to the WAN port of the main router. The router is doing DHCP fine, and it's set to use the *NIX box for DNS. All the clients can access the *NIX box just fine to pull up the site by entering the IP manually. I can figure out the DHCP stuff on my own, but I need help with the DNS.
So the real problem is, how do I configure the DNS server on the *NIX box to redirect traffic meant for any website back to itself? I'll use a 404 file to redirect back to the main page, but I can't figure out how to set up BIND correctly for the life of me. Those "zone files" and the named.conf are a little much for someone who's never played with DNS much, and not on a *NIX box at all.
Any help greatly appreciated!
-- Jer
I've created a sweet website with lots of information pertaining to all the people living near us, I have all the hardware set up, and I've got apache/php/mysql running great on my linux box. I have BIND installed, and I assume it's working correctly since it starts up fine. Here's what I'd like to do:
I need to get my *NIX server working as a DCHP/DNS server, and have all requests meant for ANY website to be redirected back to the *NIX box (127.0.0.1). I've been using the DHCP on one of our routers to assign IP's to clients so far, but that's just until I get it working on the *NIX box. For now the *NIX box is on a seperate switch connected to the WAN port of the main router. The router is doing DHCP fine, and it's set to use the *NIX box for DNS. All the clients can access the *NIX box just fine to pull up the site by entering the IP manually. I can figure out the DHCP stuff on my own, but I need help with the DNS.
So the real problem is, how do I configure the DNS server on the *NIX box to redirect traffic meant for any website back to itself? I'll use a 404 file to redirect back to the main page, but I can't figure out how to set up BIND correctly for the life of me. Those "zone files" and the named.conf are a little much for someone who's never played with DNS much, and not on a *NIX box at all.
Any help greatly appreciated!
-- Jer