How to configure a DNS SERVER

arshzia · 05-01-2008, 12:36 AM

Good Morning
i have joined a company n iam new to linux,Here i have to setup a linux servers, DNS 1, DNS 2 & DHCP actually i dont know how to configure these servers so plz. help me how to start,plz explain me clearly what steps i have to follow. here in our company they have windows servers and all workstations are connected through DHCP. Our company wants to setup servers on linux. iam the only guy in linux here, our team leader said me to configure DNS1, DNS2 & DHCP to test me first. he is giving me 2 static ip address. so plz help me.

Waiting for ur reply thank u.

trickykid · 05-01-2008, 10:26 AM

Go read the DNS-Bind howto unless you plan to use something else, which I don't recommend really anyways. Then read up on Dynamic DNS and Networking if you want DHCP hosts with DNS resolvable names, etc.

0x29a · 05-01-2008, 04:48 PM

These are fairly expansive topics. What distribution are you using? Are bind and dhcpd installed? Run the following commands to help find out: (Depending on your distro, you may have to be root for this to work.)

Code:

# which named
/usr/sbin/named
# which dhcpd
/usr/sbin/dhcpd

The resource that got me started with DNS was the book DNS and BIND (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dns4/) (ISBN 10: 1-56592-512-2).

DHCP, on the other hand is fairly simple. Two things to verify: Make sure it's installed (see above). Make sure that there is a startup script for it in /etc/init.d:

Code:

$ ls /etc/init.d/dhc*
/etc/init.d/dhcpd

Beyond that, let us know what distribution you're running, and how many NICs are in the servers. That will help a lot!

Andrew

eliufoo · 05-02-2008, 12:38 AM

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These are fairly expansive topics. What distribution are you using? Are bind and dhcpd installed?

DNS is quite a bid topic to cover but, the most interesting with tones of advantages. I'm still learning on how configure DNS and I find it a useful server to understand and master. Below are two links that helped me understanding DNS from a newbie level. Hope the will help you.

http://howtoforge.com/traditional_dns_howto

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...onfiguring_DNS

eliufoo · 05-02-2008, 12:48 AM

Quote:

These are fairly expansive topics. What distribution are you using? Are bind and dhcpd installed?

DNS is quite a bid topic to cover but, the most interesting with tones of advantages. I'm still learning on how configure DNS and I find it a useful server to understand and master. Below are two links that helped me understanding DNS from a newbie level. Hope they will help you.

http://howtoforge.com/traditional_dns_howto

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...onfiguring_DNS