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How To Configure Slave DNS (BIND) on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

BIND can be configured as master or slave to serve the DNS request for each zone. When the BIND is configured as a slave, it obtains the copy of zone data from the master server by using the zone transfer method. In the previous post, we had configured the DNS server on CentOS 7 which […]

How To Configure DNS (BIND) Server on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. Most importantly, it translates domain names meaningful to humans into the numerical identifiers associated with networking […]

Configure DNS on CentOS 5 / RHEL 5 with chroot

Centos/Redhat BIND normally runs as the named process owned by the unprivileged named user. Sometimes BIND is also installed using Linux chroot feature to not only run named as user named, but also to limit the files named can see.When installed, named is fooled into thinking that the directory /var/named/chroot is actually the root or […]

How to configure DNS server on CentOS 5 / RHEL 5

In Redhat Enterprise linux or Centos 5 There will be no default named .conf file in /etc directory. We Need to copy sample configuration files from /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.4/sample/etc/ to /etc directory by using the following command. cp /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.4/sample/etc/* /etc/ Copy zone files to /var/named directory from /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.4/sample/var/named. cp -a /usr/share/doc/bind-9.X/sample/var/named/* /var/named We need to create the […]