Re: [webmin-l] DNS handling?

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Hi Thomas,

Webmin will always put new domains in a separate file, as they are also
listed separately in the named.conf file. The proper way to update the
secondary is for it to also have a slave domain with the same name,
fetched from the master.

If you are using Virtualmin and want to create a domain like
demo.foo.com, it may be better to not select the 'DNS' feature at all,
and instead manually add an A entry for demo to the existing foo.com
domain.

 - Jamie

On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 08:56, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
> I've set up a "demo" sub-server/sub-domain, to host demonstration
> projects and client prototypes...
> 
> the URL to access these is "demo.godmomasforge.com"
> 
> *normally*, in an unmanaged/unautomated situation, I would put the DNS
> entries for this in the same file as I do for the root domain and it's
> sub-hosts (www.godmomasforge.com, ftp.godmomasforge.com, etc.)
> 
> This is what I expected Webmin to do.
> 
> Instead, however, it created a separate file... which the secondary DNS
> server never picked up (since it is not managed), because I didn't
> expect to have to configure it to do so (this has resulted in a very
> puzzled customer whose attempts to access the demo site have failed
> inconsistently).
> 
> I'm assuming that putting this stuff in a separate file isn't a
> technical issue (since it works, on the main server)... but should
> webmin be doing this?
> 
> Also, instead of renaming or over-writing existing /etc/httpd/conf/vhost
> files when a domain is created (not imported), it appears to be
> appending to them... renaming the file would seem to make more sense,
> because the result appears to be that the new configuration directives
> are ignored in favor of the existing ones. 
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas Leavitt
> 
> 
> 
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