Installation Of BIND DNS from Source

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 equipment for the purpose of locating and addressing these devices worldwide. 

Installation

1)Download dns package from the source

2)From the source folder run command

# ./configure

# make

# make install

3)Create a file called named.conf in /usr/local/bind/etc/named.conf

zone "trainee7.com" IN {

type master;

file "remote.com.zone";

allow-update { none; };

};

4)Create the zone file in /usr/local/bind/var/named

$TTL 86400

trainee7.com. IN SOA root.trainee7.com. (

1997022700 ; Serial

28800 ; Refresh

14400 ; Retry

3600000 ; Expire

86400 ; Minimum

)

IN NS trainee7.com.

trainee7.com. IN A 192.168.1.109

www.trainee7.com. IN CNAME 192.168.1.109

trainee7.com. IN MX 0 trainee7.com.

5)Service Named Restart

6)Edit these configuration files

vi /etc/hosts

192.168.1.109 trainee07.server.com

vi /etc/resolv.conf

search trainee7.com

nameserver 192.168.1.109

7)chgrp named /usr/local/bind/var/named/remote.com.zone

8)host trainee7.com

9)dig trainee7.com