Hello, every one, I am little bit confuse to configure DNS server on Centos 5. The problem is I don't no where and how many files are copy
in differnet directories(like /etc & /var/named/chroot/etc & /var/named/chroot/var/named). I know about what type of data is written in
(named.conf and all of its zone file) but not known where i put these files.

These are my current scenario with all files.Currently I haven't install (caching-nameserver----for bind). Please check all these files and write me all steps that where i edit named.conf (either i copy /usr/share/doc/bind----/sample/etc) or i use (caching-nameserver and rename it as named.conf) and which direcotry contain how many files.

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These packeges are install when i query this

rpm -qa |grep bind

kdebindings-3.5.4-6.el5
bind-libs-9.3.6-4.P1.el5
bind-utils-9.3.6-4.P1.el5
ypbind-1.19-12.el5
bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5
bind-chroot-9.3.6-4.P1.el5

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ls -ltr /var/named/chroot/etc/
total 16

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3519 Feb 27 2006 localtime
-rw-r----- 1 root named 113 Aug 19 09:41 rndc.key

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ls -ltr /var/named/chroot/var/named/
total 16

drwxrwx--- 2 named named 4096 Jul 27 2004 slaves
drwxrwx--- 2 named named 4096 Aug 26 2004 data


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ls -ltr /etc/|grep named*

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root named 31 Aug 19 09:43 rndc.key -> /var/named/chroot//etc/rndc.key


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ls -ltr /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.6/sample/etc/
total 32

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 524 Mar 30 2006 named.root.hints
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 775 Mar 30 2006 named.rfc1912.zones
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4298 Apr 24 2009 named.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 4 2009 rndc.conf

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ls -ltr /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.6/sample/var/named/
total 88

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 427 Mar 7 2006 named.zero
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 426 Mar 7 2006 named.local
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 424 Mar 7 2006 named.ip6.local
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 427 Mar 7 2006 named.broadcast
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195 Mar 7 2006 localhost.zone
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 198 Mar 7 2006 localdomain.zone
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1892 Feb 26 2008 named.root
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56 Sep 4 2009 my.internal.zone.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56 Sep 4 2009 my.external.zone.db
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 4 2009 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 19 09:41 slaves


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ls -ltr /var/named/
total 24

drwxrwx--- 2 named named 4096 Sep 4 2009 slaves
drwxrwx--- 2 named named 4096 Sep 4 2009 data
drwxr-x--- 5 root named 4096 Aug 19 09:43 chroot

Hi,

Take a look at this

Regards

Hello, Thanks for ur reply. I already view this but this is not helping me. I only want to know where i get named.conf file either install bind all packeges or using caching-named server.Please give me detail that how many files are necessary to configure bind.

Thanks.

You should decide whether you want a caching only name server, or a full blown name server.
In the 1st case you can copy /etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf to /etc/named.conf and you're done
In the 2nd case, if you don't a /etc/named.conf then do as the link in my previous post. Just copy it from /usr/share/doc/bind-9.x.x/sample/etc/named.conf to /etc/ and edit it accordingly