topic Web hosting control panel and DNS parking in Operating System - HP-UX

Web hosting control panel and DNS parking

Rgomes — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 05:30:42 GMT

Hi All,

My OS is HPUX 11i. What I like to know is:

1) Is there any FREE control panel for virtual host client? Any one used it before for 11i and windows client? How do I integrate this control panel with HPUX 11i and HPapache2?

2) I am runnning 2 DNS server. One is Primary and another is slave. What I like to know, is there any software available that will give web-interface to our customer for adding their own RR record in our DNS server (DNS parking)? For 11i and BIND 9.2.0. environment.

Sorry for double posting.

TIA,
Richard

Re: Web hosting control panel and DNS parking

Geoff Wild — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:41:35 GMT

To answer #2, try Webmin:

http://www.webmin.com/

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Web hosting control panel and DNS parking

Rgomes — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 04:06:53 GMT

Hi geoff,

Thanks for your mail.
I use Webmin for creating Virtual Hosts. Webmin is ok but I cannot give grenular permission/rights for specific user/client.
I haven't use Usermin, have you used it? What do you think.

Thanks and regards,
Richard

Re: Web hosting control panel and DNS parking

Geoff Wild — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:29:01 GMT

Nope - havn't used usermin...

You may have to write your own web interface (say in Perl), then use it to pass arguments to something like:

http://dnsupdate.sourceforge.net/

IMHO - I would never allow someone to update my DNS directly....

Here's something I do on my Linux server:

In my named.conf file:

include "/var/named/customer/conffile.customer";

I then do a rndc reload from cron every night.

The customer ftp's their own dns entries into the above directory for any zones they have.

Not as elaborate as a web interface, but it works...BTW - they can NOT write to the confile.customer - only to the zone files...

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Web hosting control panel and DNS parking

Rgomes — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 00:31:21 GMT

Geoff, it sounds good.
BTW, if client intentionally or un-intentionally upload zone file with wrong/bogus or existing ( someone else's IP address, already used in the net) IP address, what would happen?

regards,
Richard