Comments on: Setting up your own DNS part 1: Getting started

By: Svein

Svein — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:15:50 +0000

As long as you point each of the virtual servers to the new nameserver and each of them has separate IP addresses I do not see why it would not work. But I do not have any experience with Xen and VServers. So take it with a pinch of salt.

I am planning to change my own server setup and I am going to use a special version of Ubuntu as the basis – http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/jeos . As a virtual environment, I am planning on using VirtualBox as this is the VM system I am using now and am familiar with. This will allow me to split the different functions so several of them will have their own IP and server. And the DNS will definitely be one of them. VirtualBox also has a built-in VRDP server making it easier to administrate your servers (compatible with the RDP protocol from Microsoft and available in the Remote desktop viewer in KDE).

One of the things that attracts me to virtualization is that it makes it really easy to move your server(s) to new hardware without needing to change anything in your setup. I will get back with more info about this when I have set it up. In the mean time, if you test it, please come back with your findings!

By: Stefan Koch

Stefan Koch — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:06:47 +0000

This looks really, really interesting. It is almost sad that I do not start my exercise-server at the moment. I have been wondering in the past how to do this, but nowadays it is not really needed. Maybe I can use the tutorial once I will work with my VServers again.

Coming to the question: Would this also work with VServers (I have access to the main server, but there are a lot of VServers running, e.g. for Apache, fileserver, …)? They all have their own IPs in my network, but sometimes there are problems with ports, because I do not totally understand Xen, yet.

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