Data Networking/Fall 2015/ZZTL

Group Members

Xiao TAN
Bohan ZHONG
Junjie LI
Xiyu ZHAO

Motivations

The project aims to establish a network and provide relative functions for a company. The key concepts used in the project are highly related to our Data Networking class. While configuring those protocols, we met several problems and had deeper understanding of DHCP, DNS, VPS and Web server. We are more familiar with Ubuntu System, which is fast, secure and stylishly simple. Ubuntu System has a lot difference between Windows System. The ultimately solution basically solve the problems we might meet in engineering practice.

Understanding the Protocol

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol – a network service that enables host computers to be automatically assigned settings from a server as opposed to manually configuring each network host. DHCP Servers are very often used in enterprise networks to reduce configuration. All IP addresses of all computers are stored in a database that resides on a DHCP server machine.

DNS

Domain Name Service – is a service that maps IP addresses and fully qualified domain names to one another. DNS alleviates the need to remember IP addresses and make people easy to remember website names. Ubuntu ships with BIND9 (Berkley Internet Naming Daemon), which is the most widely deployed DNS server.

WEB SERVER

Web Server is a web pages requested by clients. Clients typically request and view Web Pages using Web Browser applications, like Firefox.

FIREWALL

Firewall is setup on web server for secure matters. If the fire wall is enabled, no one would have the accessibility to servers except some clients and some kinds of services specified by firewall rules. Firewall can divide, filter and forward the data coming in or going out the network.

BACKUP

Backup is a very useful way to protect and recover lost data. It will copy all data of daily works in current server and send it to another server in remote. As server is a busy machine as clients increases ad it is possible for the server to crashed by heavy work. Back up is necessary to protect both server and data it generated.

VPN

VPN- virtual private network (VPN) extend a private network that can run over the public network.

NIS

NIS-network information service(NIS) produces a network lookup service including the service of databases and process.

NFS

Network File System allows hosts to access a directory located on one networked computer in the same network. The computer be accessed by other computer is called the server and the computers or devices connecting to that server are called clients. When a client get enough, it becomes part of their own directory structure.

NTP

NTP-network time protocol(NTP) is a kind of protocol which is used to synchronize the clocks of computers to some time reference.

MAIL SERVER

A mail server is a server that handles and delivers e-mail over a network, usually over the Internet. A mail server can receive e-mails from client computers and deliver them to other mail servers. A mail server can also deliver e-mails to client computers.

The Requirements

DNS

Assign a set of IP addresses that have to be used for this project.
Create any 5 DNS records.
Use IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in your implementation of records.
Create reverse domains in in-addr.arpa and ipv6.arpa for the addresses.
Configure a Master DNS server as well as a Slave DNS server, the Slave DNS should automatically update with Master DNS server.
Test plan and implementation with examples.

DHCP

Assigned a set of IP addresses that have to be used for this project.
Use IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in your implementation of DHCP.
Dynamic allocation of network addresses.
The Client-Server Protocol.

Web Server & Firewall

Use only command line tools and packages.
Provide all the commands that you have used and also give a brief description in one line.
Provide the changes you have made to the files/folders for configuring the webserver as well as the firewall.
Create a basic page to be server by this web server.
Make this page accessible to the clients in your network using a web browser.
Make your server the most secured one in all possible ways.

Back Up

Automate the process of backing up the data.
The backup file should be zipped and sent to a different server.
Describe briefly about how you backup automatically and also how file transfer is made.
Mention which protocol you are using to complete this task.
Provide the commands and configurations for sending the zipped file to a different location.

Steps to perform the setup / installation

DHCP Server

IPv4

Install:

 sudo apt-get install isc-dhcp-server

To Assign IP addresses dynamically, change the file:

 /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf

Then save and exit the file, restart the dhcp-server.

 sudo /etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server restart

Setting several fixed ip address.

 Allocation ip address with specific MAC address

IPv6

Install:

 sudo apt-get install radvd

DNS Server

IPv4

Install DNS on local machine using Ubuntu & BIND9 package.

 sudo apt-get install bind9

Edited Forward Zone File: To map domain names to IP address.
Used an existing zone file as a template to create the /etc/bind/db.www.wxl.com file.
Create 5 records for the base domain, wxl.com. Then restart BIND9.
Reverse Zone File:

 Map IP addresses to domain names.

Create the /etc/bind/db.192 file
After creating the reverse zone file then restart BIND9

IPv6

Install radvd.

 apt-get install radvd

Edit the file:

 /etc/radvd.conf

Web Server

Install:

 sudo apt-get install apache2

Setting sever name:

 Choosing an ip address from ip pool

 Then restart

Then modify webpage.

Firewall

Install:

 sudo apt-get install ufw

Configuration:

 sudo ufw default deny

 sudo ufw enable

Checking firewall status.

 sudo ufw status

Shut down the firewall.

 sudu ufw disable

Back up

MYSQL

Install:

 sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Configuration:

 Edited the /etc/mysql/my.cnf file 

 change bind-addresss

Copy the files in Web Server.

 mysqldump –uroot –p1234 –h localhost –all databases > home/lijunjie/all.sql

Rsync with ssh

Install:

 sudo apt-get install openssh-server

Exchange keys to authorize the client to visit the server:

 sudo ssh-keygen

 ssh-copy-id root@192.168.10.10

Cron

Install:

 sudo apt-get install gnome-schedule

Configuration:

 Edit the file crontab

 crontab –e

 12 00 * * * 	bash – x/home/lijunjie/backup.sh

Add-ons

VPN

Install:

 sudo apt-get install pptpd

Configuration:

 Edit the file /etc/pptpd.conf

 localip 192.168.10.10 
 remoteip 192.168.10.50-70

Configuration:

 file /etc/sysctl.conf

NFS

Install:

 sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server

NFS Server

 Configuration:

 Edit file /etc/exports

NFS client

 Install:

 sudo apt-get install nfs-common

 sudo mount web.pofei.com:/ubuntu /local/ubuntu

Testing

Test the network

To see if they can ping successfully.

Test DNS Server

Use Command nslookup Type in domain name to see if it could get the IP address it mapped Type in IPv4 address to see if it could get the domain name it mapped Type in IPv6 address to see if it could get the domain name it mapped

Test DHCP Server

Using ‘ifconfig’ to see if the client (or server) gets the IP addresses (including IPv4 and IPv6).

Test Web Server

Open the web browser, type in localhost to see if it can access the website.

Test MySQL

Type the command MySQL –uroot –ppassword to login the MySQL Database. Type the command show databases; to see if it can get the table of database.

Future Prospects

Implementing more security functions to protect the network.
Setting mail server in the network for better connection.
Better to start earlier and realize more add-ons in the future.

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