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Yasir said:
I have 1 static IP which is configured on my web server
IIS.
I need to implement different web sites which are not
registered and point to this single IP.
Can I do this?
What is vrtual DNS server and how its works.
Not sure what you mean by "virtual" DNS server, unless you mean one only you
have internal access to.
Install DNS, point all internal machines to this DNS server only for DNS.
Then create a forward lookup zone for each domain name of these web sites
i.e. domain.com, domain2.com, domain.net, domain2.net and so on.
If you are planning to host a lot of web sites, in the zone for the default
domain zone create one blank host record giving the internal address for
your web server (this will resolve domain.com to your web server's address)
and one host record named www with the internal IP of this web site (this
will resolve
www.domain.com to your web server's address).
Then in the rest of the domain zones you can use an Alias (CNAME) record
named "www" pointing to the FQDN (
www.domain.com) of your default web site.
You should also create a blank CNAME pointing the FQDN.
Setting you DNS up this way using CNAMEs for all additional domains makes it
easier in case you need to change the IP of your web server because then you
only need to change one or two records in the default domain.
These web sites will only be available from inside your network because your
DNS will be publishing non-routable IP addresses.
In IIS create a web site for each domain listening on your web server's IP
address, then using the IIS administration snapin click on the properties of
your web site then on the Web Site tab click the "Advanced" button edit the
Identification of the web site putting
www.domain.com in the host header
field and click OK. Then click Add, select all IP addresses, port 80, and
the host header domain.com. Do this for all web sites.
After you do this and create the web sites internally all you need to do is
register these names on the internet using your Public IP address that
through NAT forward incoming connections on port 80 to the internal IP of
your web server.
One very important note, your default public domain must be hosted by
another DNS server that will publish Public routable IP addresses, do not
allow Public DNS zones to have any records that resolve to non-routable
private IP addresses, doing this can make the web sites inaccessable until
the TTL runs out, should these records get cached in a DNS server in
Tinbucktoo.
This is the jest of it all, hopefully this helped you out and did not
confuse you.
Additional info at
http://www.iisfaq.com/
