AA Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 My network hosts it's web page with the ISP while our mail comes directly to us. Lets call the web page www.zasco.co.za The server qwerty.zasco.co.za The server acts as a firewall, proxy, gateway, dns, mail and a couple of others including http. Now when logged in at a workstation, if you type www.zasco.co.za in you browser address bar you get a returned message saying the page cannot be displayed. The server says, wait a minute, my name is zasco.co.za but there is no web page here and hence the error message. Now, what I want to know is, what must I do in order to get the workstations behind the server to view the web page. The server is not a mandrake box, its an e-smith box and the workstations are all win2K machines. Can someone help...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonChild Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 If your logs say you don't need www in front, don't use it. or set your DNS server to point to the server with those requests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AA Posted January 16, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2003 Well could you please tell me how to set the DNS server then, because I have been trying all sorts of weird things to get it to work and I am not being succesful. What exactly must I do in order to set the DNS server to point to a different host...?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted January 16, 2003 Report Share Posted January 16, 2003 @ IN SOA ns1.yournameserverhere.com. netadmin.yournameserverhere.com. ( 2002140101 ; serial 10800 ; refresh 3600 ; retry 604800 ; expire 43200 ); minimum TTL @ IN NS ns.yournameserverhere.com. @ IN NS ns2.yournameserverhere.com. # (your local mail server) mail 172800 IN A 192.168.1.x # (your remote IP address for the website) @ IN A 202.x.x.x www IN A 202.x.x.x # (local mail server) pop3 IN A 192.168.1.x smtp IN A 192.168.1.x yourdomain.com. 86400 IN A 192.168.1.x 86400 IN MX 0 mail.yourdomain.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AA Posted January 16, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2003 Where must that go....??? /var/named/yourdomain ???? I have this in /var/named/xxxnet.co.za $ORIGIN co.za.xxxnet 86400 IN SOA mail.ccdweb.co.za. dns@ccdweb.co.za. ( 2001012216 21600 3600 3600000 86400 ) 86400 IN NS name.ccdweb.co.za. 86400 IN NS mail.ccdweb.co.za. 86400 IN MX 0 mail.xxxnet.co.za. $ORIGIN xxxnet.co.za name 86400 IN A 196.**.***.** localhost 86400 IN A 127.0.0.1 mail 86400 IN A 66.*.**.*** www 86400 IN A 196.**.***.** loopback 86400 IN CNAME localhost.xxxnet.co.za. route 86400 IN A 196.**.***.*** I hashed out ip's and changed the domain name of my network to xxxnet.co.za for my own network safety. (for obvious reasons) But the www points to the the ip of the web-server and the others to their respective ips and stuff...!! The ISP dude said I should do this, which I did and it still aint working. He then said I should just use his DNS server and then I should be able to pick up our page... tried that, set the DNS address to his server and that also is not working.... HELP !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mywebforums.com Posted January 17, 2003 Report Share Posted January 17, 2003 It would appear that you trying to call your website up by a non-routable IP? Is this the case, if so, this is where you error is. You have to specify a real IP in your named file or else it won't go anywhere. When the request comes into the firewall, NAT Device or whatever else you may have setup in front, it Port Forwards the request to the Internal network and sends back the information requested. It is critical that you have your real world IP setup in the DNS file or else you'll be pulling your gray hairs out for months to come. Regards, myWebForums.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AA Posted January 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2003 At last..... I fiddled a bit more with all sorts of stuff before coming here... turns out that all it was, was a typo...!! DOH !! Thanx for the help people !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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