In this tutorial i will show you how to configure DNS server in Linux. We will learn to configure zone file and reverse lookup zone file.We will also learn about dns packages and dns services.We will also learn to change the ownership of files which we need to change.I have used Virtualbox for configuring and testing this DNS lab.The operating system i used for DNS server is RHEL5 and the DNS Client machines is WindowsXP.
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The ip address for DNS server is 192.168.0.254 and domain name is xyz.com
Step 1: set hostname to server.xyz.com
#vim /etc/sysconfig/network
Step 2:Check the ip address of your DNS machine.
As i have assigned a static ip address to My DNS Machine and that is 192.168.0.254
step 3: Install bind package required for DNS.
# yum install bind* -y
Step 4: Change main configuration file of DNS named.conf
#vim /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf
Step 5: Install caching-nameserver package reqiured for dns
Step 6:Configure ZONE FILES
I have defined two zone files xyz.com.zone for forward zone and 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa for reverse zone.
Remember that both These files will be stored in /var/named/chroot/var/named/ directory.
I will use two sample files for creating these both files.
Step 7:Change directory to /var/named/chroot/var/named and copy the sample files to name which we have set in named.conf
Step 8: Now open and edit forward zone file xyz.com.zone
Step 9:Now open reverse lookup zone file 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa
Open reverse lookup zone file and edit for reverse dns configuration
Lets Understand DNS Records:
A : stands for Address Record
AAAA : stands for IPV6 Address Record
CNAME : Alias of one name to another
MX : Mail Exchange Record
NS : Name server Record
PTR : Pointer Record (Pointer to a Canonical name)
SOA : Start of a Authirity record
Step 10:Now changed the ownership of these zone files to named group
step 11:Now start the named service
Step 11: Testing DNS on Clinet machine Which is windowsXP here.
Check IP Address of your DNS Client Machine:
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