Another vhost question

[funeralcrasher]

Going back to my two sites, "fu" and "bar" for a moment..

Should an entry be added in /etc/hosts for each, so that when another PC on the network types in http://fu they will be taken to the fu web content? Or am I confusing hosts with DNS?

Comments

[pkbarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

Are you familiar with Bind? I only need fu and bar to be live on my intranet. Most of the examples I see include something like fu.com.. I'd like to set it up so DNS recognizes just fu. Make sense?

Errors in my system log:

May 29 16:08:21 Talon named[22334]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 192.168.1.102#53
May 29 16:08:21 Talon named[22334]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
May 29 16:08:21 Talon named[22334]: command channel listening on ::1#953
May 29 16:08:21 Talon named[22334]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 42
May 29 16:08:21 Talon named[22334]: dns_rdata_fromtext: master/1.168.192.in-addr.arpa:2: near '@.': bad nam        e (check-names)
May 29 16:08:21 Talon named[22334]: zone 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading master file master/1.168.192.in        -addr.arpa: bad name (check-names)
May 29 16:08:21 Talon named[22334]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42
May 29 16:08:21 Talon named[22334]: dns_rdata_fromtext: master/talon:2: near '@.': bad name (check-names)
May 29 16:08:21 Talon named[22334]: zone talon/IN: loading master file master/talon: bad name (check-names)
May 29 16:08:21 Talon named[22334]: running

[darkvervain.livejournal.com]

What version of BIND? And what does your reverse name lookup file look like?

[pkbarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

I'm using BIND version 9.3.1-8.

Here are my master/talon files:

My zone is named "talon".

Talon:/etc/named.d # more /var/lib/named/master/talon

====================================
$TTL 3d
@ IN SOA @. root.@. (
2006052900 ; serial
3h ; refresh
1h ; retry
1w ; expiry
1d ) ; minimum

talon. IN NS georgiaoffroad.talon.
georgiaoffroad IN A 192.168.1.102
techman IN A 192.168.1.102

====================================

Talon:/etc/named.d # more /var/lib/named/master/1.168.192.in-addr.arpa

====================================
$TTL 3d
@ IN SOA @. root.@. (
2006052900 ; serial
3h ; refresh
1h ; retry
1w ; expiry
1d ) ; minimum

1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN NS georgiaoffroad.talon.
102.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR georgiaoffroad.talon.
102.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR techman.talon.
====================================

[darkvervain.livejournal.com]

It doesn't like the @ IN SOA @. root.@. ( line at all.

Try expanding the '@' on the line to the domain name and see if that helps.

[pkbarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I follow what you mean by expand.

[darkvervain.livejournal.com]

The '@' is a placeholder for the domain itself, but for some reason it seems to have problems with it. :(

[darkvervain.livejournal.com]

try:

@ IN SOA georgiaoffroad.talon. root.georgiaoffroad.talon. (
2006052900 ; serial
3h ; refresh
1h ; retry
1w ; expiry
1d ) ; minimum


See if that helps?
(Replace the SOA record in both files and do a rndc reload)