named daemon

king_of_inismac

OK, need some help here guys.

I'm trying to set-up a web server at home. The server is running red-hat 7 with apache and sql. Apache is running fine.

I want to view these web-pages from my own windows machine at home for a project.

I've just bought a lan card for the linux machine.

Firstly, do I have to run netconfig to set-up the lan, and if so what setting should I use, like ip address, subnet mask etc?

Secondly, how do I set-up the DNS server on the linux machine. I was reding about the named daemon, but can anyone explain the setup??

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

thanks ,
king

flamegrill

Hi,

2 files that are important to you for networking:

/etc/sysconfig/network
and
/etc/sysconfig-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

In here ya gota set the appropriate settings:

"/etc/sysconfig/network"
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=somehostname
GATEWAY=default gateway IP

"/etc/sysconfig-scripts/ifcfg-eth0"
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
IPADDR=192.168.0.5
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
ONBOOT=yes

Complete that lot and then we'll look at dns.

Paul

king_of_inismac

thanks man,
but cant find that folder sysconfig-scripts??

flamegrill

Originally posted by king_of_inismac
thanks man,
but cant find that folder sysconfig-scripts??

****e - typo :P

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

king_of_inismac

Ok done, and thanks a lot man!!

now whats to be done to sort out the dns??

king_of_inismac

c'mon guys its wreaking me head

flamegrill

What have you done up to this point with the DNS server?

Is networking working now?

Did you restart networking?

king_of_inismac

sorry man, havent done anything.

Am very new to this lark...

just surfing the net for an idiots guide..

king_of_inismac

ok, from what ive read, you have to edit the following files:

/etc/host.conf

/etc/hosts

/etc/resolv.conf

now does anyone know what exactly In have to place in these files??