Fedora Core DNS Server using BIND

Setting and configure BIND as and Domain Name Sever (DNS) on Fedora Core Linux machine.

1. DNS (domain name system)

Correspondence of IP address and hostname

The  /etc/hosts file example

# IP Address Hostname Alias

127.0.0.1 localhost

192.168.42.1 apple www

192.168.42.2 desk desk.domain.cxm

Installation of BIND

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain)

[root@tenouk ~]# mount /mnt/cdrom

[root@tenouk ~]# cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS

[root@tenouk ~]# rpm –Uhv bind-9.2.0-8.i386.rpm

[root@tenouk ~]# rpm –Uhv caching-nameserver-7.2.1.noarch.rpm

[root@tenouk ~]# cd /

[root@tenouk ~]# umount /dev/cdrom

Setting of client and server

edit the resolf.conf file to enable the client or server to find the DSN server.

[root@tenouk ~]# vi /etc/resolv.conf

search kimura.com

nameserver 10.10.0.235

Definition of IP address of DNS server which client uses

Setting the DNS server.

[root@tenouk ~]# vi /etc/named.conf

// generated by named-bootconf.pl

options {

directory "/var/named";

/*

* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want

* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source

* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked

* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged

* port by default.

*/

// query-source address * port 53;

};

//

// a caching only nameserver config

//

controls {

inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };

};

zone "." IN {

type hint;

file "named.ca";

};

zone "localhost" IN {

type master;

file "localhost.zone";

allow-update { none; };

};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {

type master;

file "named.local";

allow-update { none; };

};

// The following code is added

zone "kimura.com" IN {

type master;

file "named.kimura.com";

allow-update { none; };

};

zone "0.10.10.in-addr.arpa" IN {

type master;

file "named.10.10.0";

allow-update { none; };

};

include "/etc/rndc.key";

[root@tenouk ~]# cp /var/named/named.local /var/named/named.10.10.0

[root@tenouk ~]# vi /var/named/named.10.10.0

$TTL 86400

@ IN SOA jmtist20.kimura.com. root.jmtist20.kimura.com. (

1997022700 ; Serial

28800 ; Refresh

14400 ; Retry

3600000 ; Expire

86400 ) ; Minimum

IN NS jmtist20.kimura.com.

235 IN PTR jmtist20.kimura.com.

236 IN PTR compaq.kimura.com.

[root@tenouk ~]# cp /var/named/named.local /var/named/named.kimura.com

[root@tenouk ~]# vi /var/named/named.kimura.com

$TTL 86400

@ IN SOA jmtist20.kimura.com. root.jmtist20.kimura.com. (

1997022700 ; Serial

28800 ; Refresh

14400 ; Retry

3600000 ; Expire

86400 ) ; Minimum

IN NS jmtist20.kimura.com

IN MX 10 jmtist20.kimura.com

jmtist20 IN A 10.10.0.235

compaq IN A 10.10.0.236

Start BIND service

Start, stop and restart the named service.

[root@tenouk ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/named start

[root@tenouk ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop

[root@tenouk ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart

or

[root@tenouk ~]# /sbin/service named start

[root@tenouk ~]# /sbin/service named stop

[root@tenouk ~]# /sbin/service named restart

Setting automatic start for named on runlavel 3 and runlevel 5..

[root@tenouk ~]# /sbin/chkconfig --level 35 named on

Confirmation of automatic start.

[root@tenouk ~]# /sbin/chkconfig --list named

Confirmation of bind.

Use the command example below to test your DNS server functionality.

[root@tenouk ~]# ping 10.10.0.235

[root@tenouk ~]# ping 10.10.0.236

[root@tenouk ~]# ping jmtist20

[root@tenouk ~]# ping compaq

[root@tenouk ~]# ping jmtist20.kimura.com

[root@tenouk ~]# ping compaq.kimura.com

[root@tenouk ~]# nslookup jmtist20.kimura.com

[root@tenouk ~]# nslookup compaq.kimura.com

[root@tenouk ~]# nslookup 10.10.0.235

[root@tenouk ~]# nslookup 10.10.0.236

Note:

SOA - Start of authority

NS - Name server

A - Address record

PTR - Pointer record

MX - Mail exchanger

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