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Complete Zone, Named - Conf Explaination

This document contains configuration details for setting up DNS servers and zone files. It describes options in named.conf for directory locations, allowed queries and transfers. It also provides instructions for configuring root hints, master and slave zones along with example zone and resource record definitions. Logging and checking the configuration are also outlined.

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Complete Zone, Named - Conf Explaination

This document contains configuration details for setting up DNS servers and zone files. It describes options in named.conf for directory locations, allowed queries and transfers. It also provides instructions for configuring root hints, master and slave zones along with example zone and resource record definitions. Logging and checking the configuration are also outlined.

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options {

directory "/var/named";
allow-query { 192.168.135.0/24; 192.168.136.0/24; };
};

acl "secureserver"{
{ 127.0.0.1; 192.168.135.2; };
};

********************************************************************
Configure as Root Hint - named.root
********************************************************************
Command to get this file right from redhat
# wget --user=ftp --password=ftp
ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/db.cache -O /var/named/named.root

The Code ...


# vi /etc/named.conf
zone "." in {
type hint;
file "named.root";
};

zone "suned.sun.com" in {
type master;
file "suned.sun.com.dns";
allow-transfer {"secureserver";};
allow-update {"secureserver"};
allow-query { 127.0.0.1; 192.168.135.0/24; };
};

zone "gv.com.my" in {
type slave;
file "gv.com.my.dns"';
masters
{
192.168.135.2; # <- slave server
};
};

zone "100.128.in-addr.arpa" in {
type master;
file "suned.sun.com.dns.rev";
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in {
type master;
file "localhost.rev";
};

/* Notes
/* allow-updates allow DHCP server to autamatically update the DNS
server with host information
/* allow-transfer limit to which slave server will be able to receive
dns database transfer from the master server
/* allow-query permits onli certain network/clients to dns query the
server

/* NAMED.conf consistency check


named-checkconf and named-checkzone cmd to check the integrity of the
named.conf file
example
# named-checkconf
# named-checkzone suned.sun.com suned.sun.com.dns.rev
*/

/* DNS Logging - named.conf(4)

logging {
channel logfile {
file "/var/named/bind-log";
print-time yes;
severity debug 9;
print-category yes;
print-severity yes;
};
category default { default_syslog; logfile; };
category queries { logfile; };
};

********************************************************************
Zone File keywords
********************************************************************
is a text file contains information that defines mappings between
domain names and IP address and other resources, organized in form of
resource records (RR).

$ORIGIN example.com. ; designates the start of this zone file in the


name space
$TTL 86400 ; The default expiration time of a resource record in
seconds. Is 24hrs * 60 * 60 = 86400 sec
1001; serial number of this zone file
28800; slave refresh time (8hrs)
7200 ; slave retry time in case of a problem (2hrs)
3600000 ; slave expiration time (6 weeks)
86400; minimum caching time in case of failed lookups (24hrs)

Though the timing can also be specified in h,d,w

RR resource records like


· SOA record Start of Authoritative (Primary Master Server)
· NS record - Name Server records (pointing to Master and Slave server)
· A record
· AAAA record - quad record for ipv6 system
· CNAME record - caonical / alias name
· MX record - Mail Exchange for Mail Server
· PTR record - store in reverse lookup file

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