Hosting Web Site

[mackbarnes]

I am in the process of trying to host several web sites in house.
Currently I am hosting one and just having the company that registered
the domain name point it to our IP address. My question is how to I
host my own DNS to just have the domain rest on our computer example
"dns.mydomain.com". I know it would be easier to just have them point
it to our IP address, but I really want to learn how to do it. Any
advice? Tutorials to go to or books to go to. Or how could I simply do
this?

 

[deji]

you create the A records for the web sites on your DNS server. You then go
to your Registrar and change the NS records to point to the names/IP of your
DNS servers. Give it about 24 hours and people should be able to now find
your published web servers.

Deji

 

[mackbarnes]

I now got the rest set up, the problem that I am having is with the A
record. What exactly do I need to do with that?

Thanks

 

[deji]

Say you have a webiste called www.thiswebsite.com. It is hosted on your web
server with an IP address of 1.2.3.4

On your DNS server you'd create a zone called thiswebsite.com
Then inside the thiswebsite.com zone you'd create an A record called www,
and you will give it the IP address of 1.2.3.4
That's all. An "A" record is the same as "Host" record.

Deji