{NEED HELP} with ip

i brought a vps ok..
but instead of typing in the whole ip every time i want to just type in my domain how do i do this ?

My vps is ubuntu 9

 

anyone know ??

 

You need to install Bind

type the following into the shell

apt-get install bind

or type

aptitude

then search for it and install it. then edit the bind config files to point to a domain. It is a tricky thing as your best to install things like webserver (apache) first then do that

Of course you can use web tools such as cPanel, webmin, kloxo etc, which help you out with all that stuff manually, but I would not recommend playing arounda dn doing it manually, best to seek out some help (possible on IRC chat rooms) as it is a complicated thing to do, especially if you haven't done it before

Otherwise if you wanna do teh cheats way and if you only want to access the VPS with the domain, you can edit your hosts files to point the domain to the IP, but that will only work for you viewing it

 

i have webmin but how do i do it

 

> apt-get install bind
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package bind is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
dnsutils bind9 manpages
E: Package bind has no installation candidate

 

why don't use ask their support? They should give you a good answer on that

 

Get a domain name and change the C-Name Record to your IP.

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QFT!
message too short

 

So

name:
213.229.67.221

Type:
Cname

Content:
my domain

is this right?

 

Correct if I'm wrong guys but, the content should just be @, but your domain should work the same way. Try it out, let us know if it fails.

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What? You've got to have an A Record in place for the domain pointing to that IP.

Here's an example zone file.

@ IN NS ns1.your-nameserver.com
@ IN NS ns2.your-nameserver.com
@ IN A 213.229.67.221
www IN CNAME @
ftp IN CNAME @
mail IN CNAME @
@ IN MX 10 mail

This is only one part of it and assumes you are doing your own DNS.
You will also need to create a vhost (virtual host) for your web server software that points that name at the directory where you site will be located on the server.

So to recap you need to both map your IP to a domain name, then map that domain/IP to a directory locally.

 

LOL i am confused can somone pm me IN DETAIL of what to do as i have only added the cname

 

Ahhh, did I say CName, A Record is what you need to edit. A Record, not CNAME.

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Invalid name: Each part of the name must start & finish with a letter or number. It also cannot wholly consist of numbers
Invalid new entry

 

so do i use a or cname ?

 

A Record

..

 

i hv bind if this helps

 

It is a challenging thing to do if you dont have a control panel software and no knowledge fo how to do it manually. Best to look for a tutorial on google, try on cyberciti.biz and hopefully should help you out.

Otherwise you would prob be best to ask your VPS provider to install a control panel software like cpanel or something which will cost extra

 

See if the place where you registered your domain name provides free or cheap DNS, then you don't have to install anything, just set up A/CNAME records pointing to your IP address.