Very Computer

I have read books and learned all about how DNS works but I can't find a
good example on Virtual Hosting with one IP address. I'm assuming the
files "named.boot" and "named.conf" are the files I need to focus on. I
have over 10 virtual hosts on one IP address. Anyone willing to help me
out on this is a life saver. I just want one good example and I'm a
happy man!

Thanks in advance.

Any replies to your post?  I am having the same trouble finding an example.
:-(

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I don't think you have to do anything special. I assume that virtual hosts
use different port numbers for the www interface so just give each virtual
host in DNS the same IP or maybe CNAME. This is an example from my zone
file:

(I have used *.*.*. instead of real IP address)
    eden            IN      A       *.*.*.130

    www     IN      CNAME   eden.gmcs.com.au.
    mail    IN      CNAME   eden.gmcs.com.au.
    ftp     IN      CNAME   eden.gmcs.com.au.

Greyman

I think its a web configuration issue.  All that DNS can do is assign the
hosts to an IP address.  It won't be able to determing port addressing or
anything like that.

Quote:> I have over 10 virtual hosts on one IP address.

Are they all on the same domain name, or separate domain names?

If all on the same domain name, then you just need to create one zone file
(for the domain name), with the following host records:

        foo.com.        IN A            10.0.0.1
        host1           IN CNAME        foo.com.
        host2           IN CNAME        foo.com.
        host3           IN CNAME        foo.com.

That will map host1.foo.com to point to 10.0.0.1, host2.foo.com to
10.0.0.1, etc.

If they are all separate domain names, then create a zone file for each
one and have an A record pointing to the IP address.

Then configure your web server (if Apache 1.3.3+) like such for each
virtual host:

        NameVirtualHost ##.##.##.##
        <VirtualHost host.some_domain.com>

        DocumentRoot /www/docs/host.some_domain.com
        ServerName host.some_domain.com
        ErrorLog logs/host.some_domain.com-error_log
        TransferLog logs/host.some_domain.com-access_log
        </VirtualHost>

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