alonebfg Posted February 9, 2007 Posted February 9, 2007 ok i have just set up a ubuntu server on my network not being used as nothing but a web server for internal use with media ect ect on it but i have a little problem i have given it a static ip say for example 192.168.1.100 no this is the problem wen typing in a web browser say http://test.server it cant find it but if i type 192.168.1.100 it works i have added ip and name to dns but still no joy any idears please.
ITWombat Posted February 9, 2007 Posted February 9, 2007 It's the dot between test and server that's the problem. It makes it appear that you have an extra subdomain called 'server' and that the machine's FQDN (fully qualified domain name) is test.server.school-domain.local You should rename the sever as test-server
SimpleSi Posted February 9, 2007 Posted February 9, 2007 Also you might have to manually create an entry in your DNS server for it ( I had to with my Ubunutu printserver) regards Simon
Geoff Posted February 9, 2007 Posted February 9, 2007 Linux DHCP clients by default don't register themselves in DNS. You have to tell them to do this.
alonebfg Posted February 9, 2007 Author Posted February 9, 2007 i have rergesterd it on dns the problem i have is fqdn ie the severs name is School-web.swgfl.area.sch.uk my server being the school web and for some reasone it took this from dhcp and it will not be going external so have set it up as a standalone. on the same thing i am using isp config is that any good
SimpleSi Posted February 10, 2007 Posted February 10, 2007 In your DNS, forward lookup zone, what is the name of your server (in left pane)? In the DNS Host (A) record what is the FQDN and IP? regards Simon
alonebfg Posted February 10, 2007 Author Posted February 10, 2007 in dns it is sb-local-web in the sbserner.local zone do i need to pont dhcp to the linux server as a dns server
alonebfg Posted February 10, 2007 Author Posted February 10, 2007 i have just found the problem ?? ad its why i have been strugling for so long when the server was set up dns points to the external dns servers but does not point to itself so it does not see the .local network. i have added the extra dns in ie poins back to its self and it works fine now. lol always the simple ones we miss.
alonebfg Posted February 10, 2007 Author Posted February 10, 2007 on the same subject if i want to create a website ie school.com i know how to create it on the web server do i just create a new dns host pointing to the same ip in my local zone or do i just add the web server as another dns server
SimpleSi Posted February 10, 2007 Posted February 10, 2007 Your DNS server forwarder should be set to your ISP's DNS Server(s). Your DHCP server should be set to supply the IP address of your DNS server as the DNS address for your computers. Because, your web server is linux and static IP, the other computers don't know about its name until you create a manual Host (A) record in your DNS server. Your web server should not run another DNS server. (Unless you want to be very clever and have a backup but I wouldn't recommend using a linux DNS server to act as a secondary DNS server in an AD enviroment 8O ) regards Simon PS If anyone thinks this is poor advice please feel free to correct me
alonebfg Posted February 10, 2007 Author Posted February 10, 2007 in the end i have created a new forward looking zone called webname.com in there i have created hoasts www ftp pop3 smtp and they all point to the webserver ip and it works a dream dont know if theis is the corect way to do it i have also created sub domans in there ie staff and students and they have there own site i have yet to test it out and because it does not leave the school i have made sure the name does not exist on the web. ( i may even regester it )
alonebfg Posted February 17, 2007 Author Posted February 17, 2007 wow that was simple all set up now have internal email website and it works well have even put some media on it for teachers to use better than them loseing the oiganals ( have asked and got written pomisstion so am covered by copywright as long as noone from outside the school has access to the internal site.
alonebfg Posted March 3, 2007 Author Posted March 3, 2007 ok on this topic still how do i create email on mass i have got ispconfig setup but i cant find a way to create 250 emails at once using notepad file of something.
CyberNerd Posted March 3, 2007 Posted March 3, 2007 You want to create mailing lists? have a look at mailman: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/
alonebfg Posted March 4, 2007 Author Posted March 4, 2007 after you have stopped taking the pi%$ (I am dyslexic and do have problems but i did not know it mattered on this fourm ??. what i am trying to do is create a on mass lots of email address i dont know if ispcomfig is the best prog or if anyone has any better idears ie we are useing the email system as an internal system for the kids but i need to create email addys on mass otherwise it could take me a long time especial as my typing is not all that good.
GeeDee Posted March 4, 2007 Posted March 4, 2007 - More offensive content - Ric_ To answer your question, i'm sure it's possible to write a quick script to do the necessary mass imports for qmail. Have a Google, read the documentation and have a play. That said it's hardly ideal to have to maintain a totally separate user infrastructure for mail when (I assume) you already have Active Directory running as your primary authentication mechanism. Educational licensing for Exchange is really very cheap and mdaemon from alt-n is a very powerful e-mail server that will integrate with AD (for an alternative to exchange). There are also plenty of ways to integrate most of the major *nix mailserver apps with AD via LDAP (or plain old NTLM I guess :/); but it will be a bit of a steep learning curve. Enjoy.
Geoff Posted March 4, 2007 Posted March 4, 2007 If you use samba and winbind windows accounts appear on linux as if they were normal local accounts. Almost any mail server setup will cope quite happily with this setup.
SimpleSi Posted March 4, 2007 Posted March 4, 2007 And saying you are dyslexic certainly doesn't preclude you from being able to give your post a quick proof read before you post it I think that's exactly what it precludes As someone who made an bad comment in the past, I'd hoped we'd all learnt from my mistake. regards Simon
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