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Step by Step DNS Configuration On Linux

The document provides step-by-step instructions for configuring a DNS server on Linux. It involves installing Bind packages, editing configuration files like named.conf and zones files, adding domain entries, and restarting the named service. The DNS server is then configured to resolve hostnames for an Oracle 11gR2 RAC installation with three nodes and VIPs.

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Step by Step DNS Configuration On Linux

The document provides step-by-step instructions for configuring a DNS server on Linux. It involves installing Bind packages, editing configuration files like named.conf and zones files, adding domain entries, and restarting the named service. The DNS server is then configured to resolve hostnames for an Oracle 11gR2 RAC installation with three nodes and VIPs.

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Step by step DNS Configuration on Linux

Step by step DNS Configuration on Linux RHEL5/OEL5


Welcome to our page. In this page we are going to discuss about Domain Name Server(DNS) configuration. Later the same DNS
configuration going to use Oracle 11g Release 2 Real Application Cluster (RAC) Installations.

Step 1 : Login as root and install below listed Bind RPM's.

rpm -Uvh bind-9.3.3-7.el5.i386.rpm \


bind-chroot-9.3.3-7.el5.i386.rpm \
bind-devel-9.3.3-7.el5.i386.rpm \
bind-libbind-devel-9.3.3-7.el5.i386.rpm \
bind-libs-9.3.3-7.el5.i386.rpm \
bind-sdb-9.3.3-7.el5.i386.rpm \
system-config-bind-4.0.3-2.el5.noarch.rpm \
caching-nameserver-9.3.3-7.el5.i386.rpm \
postgresql-libs-8.1.4-1.1.i386.rpm
Step 2: Verify the IP address for the DNS server. Use following command to check the IP address.
[root@dnc ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:7D:60:F3
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe7d:60f3/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:39 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4919 (4.8 KiB) TX bytes:5628 (5.4 KiB)
Interrupt:67 Base address:0x2024
Step 3: There are four files we have to edit. Find the below easy steps to configure the DNS server.
1. Create a named.conf file using sample named.caching-nameserver.conf file.
[root@dnc ~]# cd /var/named/chroot/etc/
[root@dnc etc]# ls
localtime named.caching-nameserver.conf named.rfc1912.zones rndc.key
[root@dnc etc]#cp named.caching-nameserver.conf named.conf
2. Edit the named.conf file based on your configuration. For example.
options {
listen-on port 53 { 192.168.1.100; };
# listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";
// Those options should be used carefully because they disable port
// randomization
// query-source port 53;
// query-source-v6 port 53;
allow-query { any; };
allow-query-cache { localhost; };

};
logging {
channel default_debug {
file "data/named.run";
severity dynamic;
};
};
view localhost_resolver {
match-clients { any; };
match-destinations { 192.168.1.100; };
recursion yes;
include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones";
};
3. Edit named.rfc1912.zones file. Sample file given below.

zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};
zone "india.com" IN {
type master;
file "forward.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "localhost" IN {
type master;
file "localhost.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "reverse.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};
..
4. Change the permission to the above two files.
chgrp named named.conf
5. Change the directory to below location
cd /var/named/chroot/var/named
cp localdomain.zone forward.zone
cp named.local reverse.zone
6. Modify the forward.zone file. example
$TTL 86400
@
IN

dnc

IN
IN

SOA

NS
A

dnc.india.com. root.dnc.india.com. (
42 ; serial (d. adams)
3H ; refresh
15M ; retry
1W ; expiry
1D ) ; minimum
dnc.india.com.
192.168.1.100

7. Modify the reverse.zone file


$TTL 86400
@
IN

100

IN
IN

SOA

NS
PTR

dnc.india.com.
root.dnc.india.com. (
1997022700 ; Serial
28800 ; Refresh
14400 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Minimum
dnc.india.com.
dnc.india.com.

8. Change the ownership for both the files.


chgrp named reverse.zone
chgrp named forward.zone
9. make an entry to both /etc/hosts and /etc/resolve.conf files. The samples are below.
cat /etc/hosts
192.168.1.100 dnc.india.com dnc
cat /etc/resolve.conf
search india.com
namedserver 192.168.1.100
10. Restart the named services using below statement.
service named restart
11. Verify the DNS server using below statements

[root@dnc named]# dig dnc.india.com


; DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 dnc.india.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1483
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dnc.india.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
dnc.india.com. 86400 IN A 192.168.1.100
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
india.com. 86400 IN NS dnc.india.com.
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.100#53(192.168.1.100)
;; WHEN: Mon Aug 27 23:54:49 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 61
12. To check reverse the zone

[root@dnc named]# dig -x 192.168.1.100


; DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 -x 192.168.1.100
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:

;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 55949


;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;100.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR
;; ANSWER SECTION:
100.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR dnc-priv.india.com.
100.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR dnc.india.com.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS dnc.india.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dnc.india.com. 86400 IN A 192.168.1.100
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.100#53(192.168.1.100)
;; WHEN: Mon Aug 27 23:57:27 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 124
13. To verify DNS Server using nslookup
[root@dnc named]# nslookup dnc.india.com
Server: 192.168.1.100
Address: 192.168.1.100#53
Name: dnc.india.com
Address: 192.168.1.100
DNS server working fine now. Finally we got success.
14. For Oracle 11gR2 RAC Installation adding node Information in/var/named/chroot/var/named/forward.zone file
on DNS server.

$TTL
@

86400

dnc
kracnode1
kracnode2
kracnode1-vip
kracnode2-vip
kracnode-scan
kracnode-scan
kracnode-scan

IN SOA

IN
IN
IN
IN
IN
IN
IN
IN
IN

NS
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A

dnc.india.com. root.dnc.india.com. (
42
; serial (d. adams)
3H
; refresh
15M
; retry
1W
; expiry
1D )
; minimum
dnc.india.com.
192.168.1.100
192.168.1.50
192.168.1.51
192.168.1.60
192.168.1.61
192.168.1.70
192.168.1.71
192.168.1.72

15. Restart named service as a root user.

[root@dnc named]# service named restart


Stopping named:
Starting named:

16. Verify the SCAN names using nslookup.

[root@dnc named]# nslookup kracnode-scan

[
[

OK
OK

]
]

Server:
Address:

192.168.1.100
192.168.1.100#53

Name:
kracnode-scan.india.com
Address: 192.168.1.72
Name:
kracnode-scan.india.com
Address: 192.168.1.70
Name:
kracnode-scan.india.com
Address: 192.168.1.71

17. Add below files in /etc/resolv.conf file on all the nodes.

search india.com
nameserver 192.168.1.100

[oracle@krac1 ]# cat /etc/resolv.conf


search india.com
nameserver 192.168.1.100
[root@krac1 bin]# nslookup kracnode-scan
Server:
192.168.1.100
Address:
192.168.1.100#53
Name:
kracnode-scan.india.com
Address: 192.168.1.71
Name:
kracnode-scan.india.com
Address: 192.168.1.72
Name:
kracnode-scan.india.com
Address: 192.168.1.70
18. DNS server ready for Oracle 11gR2 RAC setup go ahead and start RAC installation using below blog.

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