Monday, March 9, 2009

DNS Installation Up!!

At Last our DNS configuration is successfully installed!~
Thanks to last minute configuration done by Mr Wagio!

We read a few things that we found out in the net. That in order to install and maintain the DNS setup and configuration, the server need to have a static IP Address. This message we found out from this website : http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_etch_p3
quote " Because the Debian Etch installer has configured our system to get its network settings via DHCP, we have to change that now because a server should have a static IP address."

After reading that, we actually remind ourselves to maintain an IP address and not keep on changing the IP. By clicking the stop button, that also can cause the IP address to change.
So instead of stopping the server, we click the Pause button and all the configuration will maintain.

Another problem that we faced, is that we duplicate the primary server file in order to create a backup but we couldnt get the IP address. We do research, and found out that Cloning Debian Etch guest breaks networking. Meaning that the port eth0 is actually being used by the primary server. so in order to get the IP address from the server, i got to add another ethernet port such as eth1, eth2 etc.

we edit the /etc/network/interfaces.
and add afew more ethernet port.
like this : iface eth1 inet dhcp .

source: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/660

and now we managed to create 2 backup server. and working properly.

signing out!!! go home time!

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