Ubuntu – Bind9 virtual subdomains

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I am trying to setup virtual subdomains using Bind9, following this tutorial.. http://groups.drupal.org/node/16862 which I've completed. Basically setting up the zone and modifying the resolv.conf file and the named.conf.local file.

I've gotten everything to work, and I am able to from my server ping mydomain.com , test.mydomain.com and when i do a dig I get the following..

; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> test.mydomain.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32606
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;test.mydomain.com.                IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
test.mydomain.com. 86400   IN      A       174.###.###.#

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mydomain.com.      86400   IN      NS      mydomain.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mydomain.com.      86400   IN      A       174.###.###.#

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan 19 21:06:01 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 86

So it looks like everything is working. However, when I try and do test.mydomain.com in the browser, expecting it to default for now to mydomain.com it does not work and I get a server not found page in Firefox.

I did read elsewhere that in your virutalhosts file you also need to setup a *.mydomain.com alias, but that didn't fix anything.

Any other information that I could provide to help troubleshoot, or any troubleshooting suggestions?

I am using Ubuntu 10.4, with typical LAMP setup. The only other things installed on the server are Bind9 and ftp client.

Best Answer

If it's showing the "server not found" page in Firefox it means that you're having a local DNS issue, try to add the domain to your local hosts fie and refresh your local dns cache.

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