Multiple Domains on one BIND server.

[netman4ttm]

I'm running BSD 5.5 Bind 9.4.xx.
I have been running the name servers for my site for several years.
I need to make these name servers the authority for another domain; not related to the first domain. xxxx.com and yyyy.com
I have already done the Network Solutions changes.
Need to know how to get the name servers to work with this new domain.

[netman4ttm]

Let me re-phrase this question.
How do you add a second fully qualified domain name to an ethernet interface?
I know alias works for ip numbers is there an equivalent for names?

[eMonsterhost]

Usually your domain registrar will allow up to 4 name servers in case of immenient failure. I have never heard of adding a domain name to an ethernet interface, perhaps i am misunderstanding your question or were not quite clear on things?

[hpham]

BIND can control thousands DNS records without trouble. You just need to add records for your domain into BIND. It will be easier if you have a control panel on your server. Do you have any?

[netman4ttm]

I solved this one.

[edhan]

How did you do it? Care to share as I am thinking of doing that with my spare IP Addresses.

[netman4ttm]

This is how I did it.

named.conf
looks like this
options {
directory "/etc/namedb";
pid-file "/var/run/named/pid";
dump-file "/var/dump/named_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/stats/named.stats";
listen-on { 127.0.0.1; 216.54.100.2; };
allow-query { any; };
allow-transfer { none; };
allow-recursion { 216.54.100.0/29; 192.168.10.0/24; localhost; };
version "12345";
};

zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.root";
};

zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
type master;
file "master/localhost.rev";
};

zone "mms-va.com" {
type master;
file "master/db.mms-va.com";
};

zone "100.54.216.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "master/db.216.54.100";
};

zone "havanasilkdogsbythebay.com" {
type master;
file "master/db.havana";
};

db.mms-va.com looks like this

$TTL 172800
mms-va.com. IN SOA ns1.mms-va.com. root.sst.mms-va.com. (
2006102310 ;Serial
10800 ;Refresh
3600 ;Retry
604800 ;Expire
172800 ) ;TTL

IN NS ns1.mms-va.com.
IN NS ns2.mms-va.com.
MX 0 sst.mms-va.com.

localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
ns1 IN A 216.54.100.2
ns2 IN A 216.54.100.3
sst IN A 216.54.100.4
ipcop IN A 216.54.100.5
graph IN A 216.54.100.6

www IN CNAME ns1.mms-va.com.

db.havanas

looks like this

$TTL 3600
havanasilkdogsbythebay.com. IN SOA ns1.mms-va.com. root.sst.mms-va.com. (
2006102310 ;Serial
10800 ;Refresh
3600 ;Retry
604800 ;Expire
86400 ) ;TTL

IN NS ns1.mms-va.com.
IN NS ns2.mms-va.com.
MX 0 sst.mms-va.com.

localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
ns1 IN A 216.54.100.2
ns2 IN A 216.54.100.3
sst IN A 216.54.100.4
ipcop IN A 216.54.100.5
graph IN A 216.54.100.6

www IN CNAME ns1.mms-va.com.

You should note that db.mms-va.com and db.havana are exactly the same EXCEPT for the SOA (Start of Authority) line and there is no reverse ip available for the dogs.

If anyone has a better way of doing this please point it out

Also this post did not retain the formatting of the 3 files

[edhan]

This is rather confusing. I will copy and check to see if I can understand all these.

Thanks for sharing.

[netman4ttm]

edhan,
This is for BSD and Bind 9.
Your named.conf will have have to reflect where your OS expects the files to be placed.
The trick is the addition of the havanasilkdogs db file.
Simply copy your first zone: rename it: change only the SOA line to the new domain and it should work.