Re: Need help hosting my own sites

In news:LGuLa.7968$OE2.1090480@news20.bellglobal.com,
John Bradley <bradley@jabtech-pc.com> posted his concerns then I replied
down below:
> I know that to some of you that this might sound like a simpleton
> question, but if I don't ask, I'll never learn. I am planning to host
> about 20 websites in my office. I will be using a ADSL connection
> which gives me 3 meg down and 640 up and 8 static IPs, enough for
> these sites. I will be hosting them on a server running MS Small
> Business Server 2000. I will be sharing the same IP for all sites and
> email. I think that I have all that sorted out. What I don't know how
> to do, or if I should, setup my own Name Server. I'm not sure that I
> should run one or if I should use a DNS forwarding service. If I do,
> should I run it from another server or can I put it on my existing
> server? If I run my own name server(ns1.mydomain.com) I suppose that
> I would have to have a redundant name server as
> well(ns2.mydomain.com). I've always wondered how my name server would
> be found, does it have to be listed on another name server? I am new
> at this so please don't ridicule me too much. I've been trying to
> search the web for this info, but evedently, I'm looking in the wrong
> places. Is there a site that explains the basics of host one's own
> sites? A book maybe?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> John

Unfortunately, there isn't much documented on how to do this, but rather
learned thru trial and error over time, as you'll find out that you will.
This can be a long post, but I'll try to summarize.

When anyone types in say, www.domain.com, DNS is queried to resolve who is
the SOA (authorative) for domain.com, then it queries that server for the
"www" record under the zone, and the IP is returned. You want to make your
server(s) authorative for the 20 domains that you have. So when you register
a domain, or take an existing domain, you need to enter (at the registrar)
for your domain, who are these two or more DNS servers that are authorative.
If not created, you have to register your DNS server first as a
hostnameserver.You'll need two of them, as required by the registrar.

Open an account with a registrar, such as Network Solutions. Usually a way
is to just purchase a domain thru them and it creates an account for you.
Then goto your services (forget which section it is) and tell it you want to
register a hostname server (a DNS server). Then they want you to register
two DNS servers, such as ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com. Then register
your two servers (yes you need two DNS servers). Then go to your domain.com
account, and all the domains that you want to host on your DNS server, list
these two servers you just created.

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Regards,
Ace

Please direct all replies to the newsgroup so all can benefit.

Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
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Thanks Ace, I'll post again in a few weeks once all is done, maybe I'll even
document the experience to help others.

John

"Ace Fekay [MVP]" <PleaseSubstituteMyFirstName&LastNameHere@hotmail.com>
wrote in message news:OzEWCAzPDHA.1624@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> In news:LGuLa.7968$OE2.1090480@news20.bellglobal.com,
> John Bradley <bradley@jabtech-pc.com> posted his concerns then I replied
> down below:
> > I know that to some of you that this might sound like a simpleton
> > question, but if I don't ask, I'll never learn. I am planning to host
> > about 20 websites in my office. I will be using a ADSL connection
> > which gives me 3 meg down and 640 up and 8 static IPs, enough for
> > these sites. I will be hosting them on a server running MS Small
> > Business Server 2000. I will be sharing the same IP for all sites and
> > email. I think that I have all that sorted out. What I don't know how
> > to do, or if I should, setup my own Name Server. I'm not sure that I
> > should run one or if I should use a DNS forwarding service. If I do,
> > should I run it from another server or can I put it on my existing
> > server? If I run my own name server(ns1.mydomain.com) I suppose that
> > I would have to have a redundant name server as
> > well(ns2.mydomain.com). I've always wondered how my name server would
> > be found, does it have to be listed on another name server? I am new
> > at this so please don't ridicule me too much. I've been trying to
> > search the web for this info, but evedently, I'm looking in the wrong
> > places. Is there a site that explains the basics of host one's own
> > sites? A book maybe?
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> > John
>
> Unfortunately, there isn't much documented on how to do this, but rather
> learned thru trial and error over time, as you'll find out that you will.
> This can be a long post, but I'll try to summarize.
>
> When anyone types in say, www.domain.com, DNS is queried to resolve who is
> the SOA (authorative) for domain.com, then it queries that server for the
> "www" record under the zone, and the IP is returned. You want to make your
> server(s) authorative for the 20 domains that you have. So when you
register
> a domain, or take an existing domain, you need to enter (at the registrar)
> for your domain, who are these two or more DNS servers that are
authorative.
> If not created, you have to register your DNS server first as a
> hostnameserver.You'll need two of them, as required by the registrar.
>
> Open an account with a registrar, such as Network Solutions. Usually a way
> is to just purchase a domain thru them and it creates an account for you.
> Then goto your services (forget which section it is) and tell it you want
to
> register a hostname server (a DNS server). Then they want you to register
> two DNS servers, such as ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com. Then register
> your two servers (yes you need two DNS servers). Then go to your
domain.com
> account, and all the domains that you want to host on your DNS server,
list
> these two servers you just created.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ace
>
> Please direct all replies to the newsgroup so all can benefit.
>
> Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
> Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
> --
> =================================
>
>

In news:IzkMa.3174$eF3.411791@news20.bellglobal.com,
John Bradley <bradley@jabtech-pc.com> posted his concerns then I replied
down below:
> Thanks Ace, I'll post again in a few weeks once all is done, maybe
> I'll even document the experience to help others.
>
> John
>
> "Ace Fekay [MVP]"
> <PleaseSubstituteMyFirstName&LastNameHere@hotmail.com> wrote in
> message news:OzEWCAzPDHA.1624@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> In news:LGuLa.7968$OE2.1090480@news20.bellglobal.com,
>> John Bradley <bradley@jabtech-pc.com> posted his concerns then I
>> replied down below:
>>> I know that to some of you that this might sound like a simpleton
>>> question, but if I don't ask, I'll never learn. I am planning to
>>> host about 20 websites in my office. I will be using a ADSL
>>> connection
>>> which gives me 3 meg down and 640 up and 8 static IPs, enough for
>>> these sites. I will be hosting them on a server running MS Small
>>> Business Server 2000. I will be sharing the same IP for all sites
>>> and email. I think that I have all that sorted out. What I don't
>>> know how to do, or if I should, setup my own Name Server. I'm not
>>> sure that I should run one or if I should use a DNS forwarding
>>> service. If I do, should I run it from another server or can I put
>>> it on my existing server? If I run my own name
>>> server(ns1.mydomain.com) I suppose that
>>> I would have to have a redundant name server as
>>> well(ns2.mydomain.com). I've always wondered how my name server
>>> would be found, does it have to be listed on another name server? I
>>> am new
>>> at this so please don't ridicule me too much. I've been trying to
>>> search the web for this info, but evedently, I'm looking in the
>>> wrong places. Is there a site that explains the basics of host
>>> one's own sites? A book maybe?
>>>
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated,
>>> John
>>
>> Unfortunately, there isn't much documented on how to do this, but
>> rather learned thru trial and error over time, as you'll find out
>> that you will. This can be a long post, but I'll try to summarize.
>>
>> When anyone types in say, www.domain.com, DNS is queried to resolve
>> who is the SOA (authorative) for domain.com, then it queries that
>> server for the "www" record under the zone, and the IP is returned.
>> You want to make your server(s) authorative for the 20 domains that
>> you have. So when you register a domain, or take an existing domain,
>> you need to enter (at the registrar) for your domain, who are these
>> two or more DNS servers that are authorative. If not created, you
>> have to register your DNS server first as a hostnameserver.You'll
>> need two of them, as required by the registrar.
>>
>> Open an account with a registrar, such as Network Solutions. Usually
>> a way is to just purchase a domain thru them and it creates an
>> account for you. Then goto your services (forget which section it
>> is) and tell it you want to register a hostname server (a DNS
>> server). Then they want you to register two DNS servers, such as
>> ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com. Then register your two servers
>> (yes you need two DNS servers). Then go to your domain.com account,
>> and all the domains that you want to host on your DNS server, list
>> these two servers you just created.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Ace
>>
>> Please direct all replies to the newsgroup so all can benefit.
>>
>> Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
>> Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
>> --
>> =================================

Very good John. Good luck!

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Regards,
Ace

Please direct all replies to the newsgroup so all can benefit.

Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
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> Open an account with a registrar, such as Network Solutions. Usually a way
> is to just purchase a domain thru them and it creates an account for you.
> Then goto your services (forget which section it is) and tell it you want
to
> register a hostname server (a DNS server). Then they want you to register
> two DNS servers, such as ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com. Then register
> your two servers (yes you need two DNS servers). Then go to your
domain.com
> account, and all the domains that you want to host on your DNS server,
list
> these two servers you just created.

Yes, as a note (if you need such a thing) you may host one of your
DNS servers locally and use one (or more) external servers as
secondary DNS, in this case you'd better install your local DNS
(which will be the primary/authoritative) for all your domains so that
it will sit onto a DMZ and so that it will only allow zone transfers to
the other (secondary) DNS servers and btw it won't allow recursion
(if you're using the windows DNS) since it will only be used for your
own domains and not to provide name resolution for others; that
said, start "plain vanilla" and setup the primary DNS, once it will be
up and running as needed just add the other NS records to the
config and update the zone(s) version(s) accordingly so that the
external DNS servers will be notified and will pick the zone data

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