Install and Configure Primary (Master) BIND DNS Server – RHEL 6 – CentOS 6

Install and Configure Primary (Master) BIND DNS Server – RHEL 6 – CentOS 6

Red Hat - CentOS - Fedora, Video Tutorials
BIND DNS Server is a widely used DNS Server. Because domain names are alphabetic, they are easier to remember. So if we will browse the Internet we don’t need to remember IP addresses. For example, the domain name www.yourdomain.com might translate to 192.168.0.1. This video tutorial will show you how to setup and configure Primary (Master) BIND DNS Server on RHEL 6.x  or CentOS 6.x: Install BIND Configure BIND Create primary DNS zone for linuxlab.local domain Add NS, A, MX records to zone Steps: 1. Install BIND yum install bind 2. Enable named service chkconfig named on 3. Edit /etc/named.conf 4. Start named ( BIND) service service named start 5.Edit /etc/named.conf 6. Copy /var/named/named.localhost cp named.localhost linuxlab.local 7. Edit /var/named/linuxlab.local $TTL 1D @ IN SOA ns1.linuxlab.local. hostmaster.linuxlab.local. ( 0 ; serial 1D…
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Install and Configure Secondary (Slave) BIND DNS Server – RHEL 6 – CentOS 6

Install and Configure Secondary (Slave) BIND DNS Server – RHEL 6 – CentOS 6

Red Hat - CentOS - Fedora, Video Tutorials
After we have installed BIND as a master DNS server (centos01) (as explained in my recent video), we can now set up a secondary DNS server (centos02) with BIND on CentOS. centos02 acts as a backup if there are problems with centos01. This tutorial will show you how to setup and configure Secondary (Slave) BIND DNS Server on RHEL 6.x or CentOS 6.x Note: centos01.linuxlab.local is Primary (Master) DNS server for linuxlab.local domain We'll make centos02.linuxlab.local ( 192.168.0.22) as secondary dns server for linuxlab.local domain Steps: 1. Define centos02 as Name Server in the primary zone 2. Install bind on other server 3. Configure /etc/named.conf on centos02 (secondary dns server) 4. Allow zone transfer to only our secondary dns server in primary dns server allow-transfer { 192.168.0.22; }; 5. start…
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