Name server & godaddy???

Kind of the same old story here but I still need help. I want to run 3 websites from 1 IP address.

under one of the registered names at GoDaddy.com I made the name server point to my IP address (ns1.whatever.com & ns2.whatever.com). Then I pointed the other two website names to those same name servers (ns1.whatever.com & ns2.whatever.com)

now on my server do I still need to set up bind or simply use name based virtual hosting to get the websites to pull up the right directory? Because I am having one heck of a time getting BIND to work, Now i'm wondering if it wont work cause I already setup ns1 & ns2 at godaddy???

erm. Well you said you created the hosts "ns1" and "ns2" and you assigned those domains as the name servers for all 3 domains. I can't verify if this is truly the case cause you haven't told me the domains. But the concept is good.

I don't know *how* your BIND dns server isn't working cause I can't query it to test it. It might even be firewall related problems, who knows.

So do me and yourself a favor and tell me what those domains are so that we can figure out what's wrong with them.

well I guess that would help sorry.

The domains are:

askanarborist.com - currently just forwarded to the ip/directory with a mask on it for the name. (I would do this for all of them but I'm not sure how the search engines will like it)

clearersolutions.com

courtingyard.com

The name servers are setup under clearersolutions.com as
ns1.clearersolutions.com
24.21.246.128
ns2.clearersolutions.com
24.21.246.128

Bind wont even work anymore it keeps insisting on loading the name server as localhost. so I moved the websites over to my windows machine until I figure this out. I'm hoping to not even need Bind. Just apache and name based virtual hosts. but I'm fairly new to this setup and not sure how it will work out. and yes it is behind a firewall. with ports forwarded.

The only way you won't need BIND is if somebody else hosted the domain information. Godaddy does domain hosting for domains you've registered with them. And there are other free domain hosts as well.

Looks like you got the registration information right though, and it has taken effect.

Queries to IP 24.21.246.128 port 53 via UDP and TCP time out. This is probably a router or firewall related problem, but we'll first confirm that the server is even running.

If your dns server is a windows box execute the following DOS command and paste for me the results:

netstat -an | find ":53"

If your dns server is a linux box execute the following command and paste for me the results:

netstat -an | grep ':53'

Well I just scrapped the whole linux box and installed windows xp professional with apache, php, and mysql

I just downloaded Bind 9.2.3 executeables for windows and I'm attempting to configure it.

by the way nothing came up when using the netstat command you told me to use. Probably due to bind not being installed.

yes, if nothing came up, it means the server isn't running. You might want to follow the tutorial I wrote on how to setup BIND if you aren't using it already.

I'm working through it now, I'm just having a hard time figuring some things out. like since I set up ns1.clearersolutions.com at godaddy do I still need to put that in the setup on my server??

Well they need to be specified as your NS records in the zone file. I went over this in the tutorial.

I finally got it. I'm glad I switched over to the windows box, it's something I'm more familiar with. linux is fairly new to me besides the many 1 time installations I have done to see where mandrake and linux were at. anyways everything seems to be communicating to everything just fine now... thank you for all your help and patience. that tutorial really took it over the top. I just followed it step by step and it all worked out