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How To Configure DNS Server (RHEL-5) Scenario 1 : Create DNS Server on your machine based upon following information. Information : 1. 2. 3. 4. It should be resolve to localhost with recusrsion Open Port No. 53 for you machines Lan Card Disable IPV6 for Port No. 53 Create a zone file for your domain example.com as station8.example.com station8.example.com 5. 6. as as A MX 192.168.100.8 192.168.100.254

Also write zone file for abc.com to meet following requirements Verify all the configuration with red hat tools provided in distribution of RHEL 5. Web : abc.com 192.168.100.5 Primary DNS (Your Machine) 192.168.100.8 station8 Secondary DNS (Other Machine) 192.168.100.254 station254 Infrastrcture of abc.com Web : abc.com 192.168.100.6 MX-1 : abc.com 172.16.0.5 MX-2 : abc.com apps.gmail.com chat.abc.com 10.0.0.7

You will be creating DNS Server Here

Solution : Step 1 : Installation Install following packages in your machine using rpm or yum tool # # # rpm -ivh bind-9.3.3-7.el5.i386.rpm rpm -ivh caching-nameserver-9.3.3-7.el5.i386.rpm rpm -ivh bind-chroot-9.3.3-7.el5.i386.rpm

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Step 2 : Start the DNS Server, verify it is working and setup your machine as client Start tne DNS server using service command and using chkconfig make it to run on runlevels 2 3 4 5 as below. # # service named restart chkconfig --level 2345 bind on

Verify activity on Port No. 53 # lsof -i :53

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It should be resolve to localhost with recusrsion By default reursion is set on for localhost. You can verify it from /var/named/chroot/etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf This file contains following block where recursion for localhost is set on. view localhost_resolver { match-clients { localhost; }; match-destinations { localhost; }; recursion yes; include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones"; };

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Open Port No. 53 for you machines Lan Card To do this you need to comment following lines in /var/named/chroot/etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf // // // // listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; }; view localhost_resolver { match-clients { localhost; }; match-destinations { localhost; };

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// // //

recursion yes; include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones"; };

By commenting listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; }; we are making the posrt 53 open to all interfaces. If you want specific the you can do like this listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; 192.168.100.8;}; We are also commenting the view localhost_resolver { } Block so that query can made from interfaces other than localhost. 3. Disable IPV6 for Port No. 53 : You can disable IPV6 query by commenting following lines in options block. // // listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; }; query-source-v6 port 53;

After making the changes, restart the named service and check using lsof command. It should display following output.

Also make sure comment and few more things to make this DNS server public. a] Comment allow-query { localhost; }; in options block b] Add recursion yes; in options block c] Also add include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones"; at the end of file. Your final conf file (/var/named/chroot/etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf) should look like as below. options { 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"; query-source port 53; recursion yes; }; Magnum Net Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
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logging { channel default_debug { file "data/named.run"; severity dynamic; }; }; include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones"; 4. Create a zone file for your domain example.com as station8.example.com station8.example.com For this purpose you need to edit as as A MX 192.168.100.8 192.168.100.254

/var/named/chroot/etc/named.rfc1912.zones

Add following block at the end of file and save it. zone "example.com" IN { type master; file "example.com.zone" ; };

Now create /var/named/chroot/var/named/example.com.zone file and write as below.

Now verify the syntax of /var/named/chroot/etc/named.rfc1912.zones by using following command. # named-checkconf /var/named/chroot/etc/named.rfc1912.zones

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Now verify the syntax of /var/named/chroot/var/named/example.com.zone by using following command. # named-checkzone example.com /var/named/chroot/var/named/example.com.zone

This command will come up with following output, if there are no errors. zone example.com/IN: loaded serial 2009012901 OK Now modify /etc/resolv.conf as below and point your DNS Client to your machine.

Now check the DNS of example.com

You can also use dig command to get complete answers.

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Also write zone file for abc.com to meet following requirements For this purpose you need to edit /var/named/chroot/etc/named.rfc1912.zones

Add following block at the end of file and save it. zone "abc.com" IN { type master; file "abc.com.zone" ; }; Now create /var/named/chroot/var/named/abc.com.zone file and write as below.

Now verify the syntax of /var/named/chroot/etc/named.rfc1912.zones # named-checkconf /var/named/chroot/etc/named.rfc1912.zones

Now verify the syntax of /var/named/chroot/var/named/example.com.zone # named-checkzone example.com /var/named/chroot/var/named/example.com.zone

Run following command to verify the DNS of abc.com

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