I have been trying with no luck on setting up my names servers on a raq 3. I'm new at this and I have check cobalts website and the information is just so confusing is there anyone out there that may have a direct approach to getting my name servers to work?

1) Choose your addresses eg ns1, and ns2 and get your ip's to go with it.

2) Goto your domain registrars control panel eg opensrs etc, and register your IP's and nameservers..with opensrs you can config nameservers that are hosted on your domain and you can enter ns1 -> 123.123.123.123 and ns2 -> 123.123.123.124 etc.

3) Goto Control panel\network and in the nameserver 1 and 2 boxes, enter the IP's for the nameservers which you registered as nameservers.

4) Setup a virtual site...and then wait for 24-72 hrs for the nameservers to become active.

You dont need to add A-Records for ns1 -> whatever. Just set them up in the network section of the panel and register tham with your domain registrar.

Matt

I have tried that with no luck. the name servers are register already but when I look at the domain name it just gives me the page cannot be displayed error. I have a raq 3 with 4webspace and the dns help they give on their site is not helpful (at least it din't work for me.)

Is BIND running?

Try this, through telnet or SSH.

cd /etc/rc.d/init.d

./named start

Maybe it doesn't work like that on Cobalts, I'm really not sure.

I tried that and I got a permission denied error

Is Apache running?

cd /usr/sbin

./httpd start






You should install WebMin, it makes configuring every aspect of the server so much easier :)

Originally posted by tymonhall
I tried that and I got a permission denied error

You're logged in as root?

I don't have the PW for root.

ur root password is the password you use for logging into your admin panel.

To become root user type

su

and hit enter then type ur password and hit enter again and you will be logged in as admin.

Originally posted by Technics
...and you will be logged in as admin.

He meant:
...and you will be logged in as root.

-as not to confuse you completely :)

opps yeah thanks chicken.