BIND 9 DNS Administration Reference Book : 

Name Server Operations and DNS Configuration using BIND

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The BIND 9 DNS Administration Reference Book is based on Internet Systems Consortium's BIND 9 documentation including the Administrator Reference Manual (Bv9ARM). In addition to hundreds of improvements (most integrated upstream) and major reorganization of the original documentation, new content, examples, detailed indexing and more cross-referencing were added. This book is an excellent resource which provides a convenient way to find BIND 9 documentation and to learn DNS basics.

The resource introduces DNS and the BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) suite of software, including the "named" server, configuration tools, diagnostic DNS lookup tools, and tools for operating the server. The BIND 9 DNS Administration Reference Book contains the definitive documentation covering the syntax and all the configuration options for BIND 9.5 (and covers some older versions). The book also includes advanced topics such as dynamic updates, TSIG, DNSSEC, IPv6 support, journal files, split DNS, Incremental Zone Transfers (IXFR), TKEY, and SIG(0). Security considerations such as access control, preventing Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, chroot, setuid, and other security features are also covered.

• Price: US$20.90
• Editor: Jeremy C. Reed
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9790342-1-3
• ISBN-10: 0-9790342-1-3
• Pages: 211 (paperback)
• Publishing Date: September 2007
• Book dimensions: 6.14 x 9.21 x 0.48 inches
• Table of Contents (PDF)
• Index from book (PDF)
• Photos of book

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 DNS example, bind 9 sample file - /etc/named.conf

Source Code

 You are not clear whether you are configuring client or server.
If you configuring client then simply do the following steps:

vi /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver
:wq

you need to edit this file:

etc/resolv.conf

#vi /etc/resolv.conf
 
search local

nameserver 202.103.225.68

 

 A DNS is a Domain Name Server. A domain is the name of a website

The Domain Name Server plays an important role in making Internet traffic possible. A DNS server is part of a global network of servers that translate host names, like whatislinux.net, into numerical IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, like 67.20.97.125, which computers on the Net use to communicate with each other. This allows us to use easy to memorize or intuitive URLs and e-mail addresses instead of a long string of numbers.

 1. Enable DNS services.
2. Configure the `/etc/hosts'' file.
3. Configure `/etc/named.conf'' file.
4. Set up DNS tables in the ``var/named/'' directory.
5. Check for the named daemon is running.

1. Enable DNS services:- To enable DNS services, /etc/host.conf file should be look like below:

# Lookup names via /etc/hosts first, then by DNS query
order hosts, bind

2. Configure /etc/hosts file. :- For better performance you can add any hosts you access often like your local servers to avoid performing DNS lookups on them.

3. Configure `/etc/named.conf'' file:- This file should be configured in such a way that the DNS tables correctly. Named.conf file contains information about different type of views like localhost_reslover (for caching nameservers), internal (who are directly connecting through LAN interface), External (addresses that are not in your LAN interface subnets), logging, Options.

4. Set up DNS tables in /var/named directory:- Each domain will have its own DNS table file named as /var/named/domain.db. All the zones will be explained for a domain in this file.

5. Check for the named daemon is running:- This daemon usually starts upon system boot. You can also start and stop the daemon manually by typing ``named start'' and `named stop'' commands respectively.

 Login as the root, enter:

nameserver 202.103.227.68
nameserver 202.103.225.68