[Novices] All About Hosts

[Kevin Wixson]

Thanks Adam.

If I set up a DNS server, I'm afraid there might be complications 
related to my Internet connection. I use (unfortunately) Direcway 
satellite. The modem only works with Windows via USB. Therefore, I have 
to have Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) enabled on a Windows 2000 
Professional computer. The web server wouldn't necessarily be on all the 
time. So, in order for this to work, wouldn't I need a real DHCP server 
with one of the DNS listings pointing to a box that may or may not be 
on? The DHCP server would pretty much have to be this not-always-on 
Linux box, too. So, what kind of trouble am I getting myself into?

Should I just use the HOSTS file, given this, or is everything going to 
be A-Okay with a sometimes there, sometime not, server of many things?

-Kevin

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

>>In Windows, I'd set up the DNS server and configure the zone records, maybe 
>>assign multiple IPs to the one server NIC, and set up virtual hosts in IIS. 
>>No problem. Been there, done that. With Linux, is this the best approach?
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>Yes, create a DNS domain;  best of with a local root like ".myhome".
>Then configure virtual hosts.  In SuSe I believe you can do this via
>Yast.
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>>Been reading all night and it looks possible to ...
>>1.) Configure the NIC with multiple IPs
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>Yep, it is called aliasing.
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>>2.) Configure Apache to listen on those IPs, yes? And Apache would serve 
>>any port 80 request that resolved to one of the NIC's IPs with the proper site?
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>Yep,  I believe apache listens to all interfaces by default.
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>>3.) Configure the HOSTS file on my Windows machine (where I do my web 
>>design) to map to the IPs on the NIC on the web server.
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>You could do that, or just create a DNS domain.
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>>Is there a way to set up the web server machine so that I wouldn't have to 
>>configure the HOSTS file on the Windows machine?
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>Create a DNS server on the Linux box and configure the zones.
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