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| When I originally set up my first website, I had to choose a domain name, a hosting service, and a language. Then I found out that I didn't have to go through all of this work the first time because I could simply use an IP Address to setup my entire website. That is, as long as I have an IP Address and a domain name. I also learned about a little known configuration referred to as chkconfig. A little bit of background information about how this works. You will need to have some computer hardware (DSC or DC). I prefer to have the newer DSC built into my computer because it makes it easier to change server time. DSC does not make your computer slower because it only changes the server time every so often. It only requires you to press a few buttons. I prefer to keep my DSC built in because I hate having to reboot to make server time changes. The next step that I have found is very useful. It would be hard for me to imagine what to do if I didn't know about FQDN domain name look up. FQDN stands for FQDN (Fatal domain name problem). I mentioned above that I had a problem with my domain name, the one that I have used since my first website. I ran some system settings queries to see what exactly was my problem. One of the things I did was boot services after chkconfig. The boot service failed, but I didn't realize it until I saw the error message "System_PPE_ Init failed with error - unable to initialize /etc/init.d/PPE." That's a pretty big hint! What happened was that I forgot to restart my virtual machine after chkconfig. What I needed was an AAFragger tutorial. I figured that if I was going to use AAFragger then maybe I could get this working in an easy way. So, I ran a AAFragger tutorial and everything went smooth. The AAFragger server did not throw any errors when trying to connect to the domain name system. I was able to successfully establish a bind lease on my dns client, boot my VPS in a chkconfig, and boot my IP client again. There are other reasons why your connection may not have registered properly. In my case the problem was actually with my FQDN. In fact, the problem was related to another process called einf hrung dns ressource. The einf hrung dns ressource process sends out queries to every name server that is currently in the cache and attempting to send them out to names that are in the active list. But, since there were so many names in the active list, the process would take forever. What I needed was an AAFragger tutorial that would tell me how to configure my hostname in such a way that I would be able to bind to the IP address of the domain name directly instead of using the FQDN. That way I would be able to establish a bind lease for my domain and then be able to boot my VPS in chkconfig. Another thing that you need to know is that domain-maps have to be configured manually in order to have your virtual server show up as a valid domain name on most NTP servers. The chkconfig utility is part of the Linux kernels and works by loading configuration scripts that automatically configure all networking devices. You may have to configure the ntp server using a NTP server browser. On the other hand, if you are trying to access the dns-servers on a domain name that is not in the active zone, you will have to use the query option with the IP address or the name of the domain in question. This way you will be able to determine which domain is in the active zone and which one is not. Then you can set the IP address of the domain name to the IP address of the inactive domain in the NTP server to establish an IP-based session. To do this you will have to log onto the NTP host and issue the s-type query as normal, but instead enter the IP address of the inactive domain in the s-type format as quoted in the section below. |