The BIND DNS Server, named, is used on the vast majority of name serving machines on the intranet or Internet. On this tutorial i will setup the intranet dns configuration that can help you to understand the basic of linux bind dns configuration.
Prerequisite : How to install Bind DNS server on CentOS and RHEL
[root@server ~]# cd /var/named/chroot/etc [root@server etc]# vi named.conf
options {
directory "/etc";
pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
forwarders {
202.188.0.133;
202.188.1.5;
};
};
zone "myintranet.local" {
type master;
file "/var/named/myintranet.local.hosts";
};
zone "2.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
notify no;
file "/var/named/db.192";
};
[root@server ~]# cd /var/named/chroot/var/named [root@server named]# vi myintranet.local.hosts
$ttl 38400 myintranet.local. IN SOA ns.myintranet.local. root.myintranet.local. ( 1298557357 10800 3600 604800 38400 ) myintranet.local. IN NS ns.myintranet.local. ns.myintranet.local. IN A 192.168.2.5 www.myintranet.local. IN A 192.168.2.5
[root@server ~]# cd /var/named/chroot/var/named [root@server named]# vi db.192
$ttl 38400 2.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ns.myintranet.local. root.myintranet.local. ( 1298557341 10800 3600 604800 38400 ) @ IN NS ns.myintranet.local. 5.2.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ns.myintranet.local.
[root@server /]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/named start Starting named: [ OK ] [root@server /]# chkconfig named on
Run nslookup to test the DNS server working or not, please make sure that you have configured the DNS to 192.168.2.5.
Example TCP/IP configuration and successful nslookup result
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.2 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.5 C:\>nslookup Default Server: ns.myintranet.local Address: 192.168.2.5 > myintranet.local Server: ns.myintranet.local Address: 192.168.2.5 Name: myintranet.local > www.myintranet.local Server: ns.myintranet.local Address: 192.168.2.5 Name: www.myintranet.local Address: 192.168.2.5 > ns.myintranet.local Server: ns.myintranet.local Address: 192.168.2.5 Name: ns.myintranet.local Address: 192.168.2.5 > exit