Frustrated with BIND

theNixGuy · 06-21-2013, 03:25 PM

Hey all,
I have been working with cPanel servers (centOS) for a while now and cPanel makes it easier to configure the DNS. I've spared my self a VPS that I am trying to use to learn.

I do not wish to use any panel on it. I am good as far as installing mysql, configuring apache, php, phpmyadmin etc goes. But I have issues understanding how to configure BIND in order to resolve an actual domain.

Note that I am not putting any important site on it. Just a domain that's sitting around in order to learn. Can anyone help me configuring BIND in order to resolve the domain to my actual files?

Ser Olmy · 06-21-2013, 03:44 PM

Adding a zone to BIND is a two-step process:

Create a zone file
Add a reference to that zone in named.conf

The format of the zone file is not specific to BIND. The reference in named.conf should look something like this:

Code:

zone "mydomain.com" IN {
        type master;
        file "mydomain.com.zone";
};

Your named.conf will contain a "directory" parameter specifying the base directory for your zone files. The "file" reference must be relative to that directory.

Do you have any specific questions about either named.conf or zone files?

Leoprince · 06-22-2013, 02:26 AM

Hi

Ser Olmy well explained to you. In the meantime
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zone "mydomain.com" IN {
type master;
file "/var/named/mydomain.com.zone";
};
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Will be little bit more clear that you should create your zone file as /var/named/mydomain.com.zone

This link is a good one to frame a zone file http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rh...bind-zone.html

unSpawn · 06-22-2013, 05:37 AM

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