Configure Authoritative Name Server Using BIND on CentOS 7
Configure Authoritative Name Server Using BIND on CentOS 7 Table of Contents Introduction Requirements Prepare Servers Install BIND Configure Primary Server Create Zone File Configure Secondary Server Test DNS Resolution Modify Zone File Reverse DNS Troubleshoot DNS Issues Introduction BIND is the one of the most popular DNS servers used across the Internet. The server can act as an authoritative, recursive, and caching name server and it supports wide range of features. This tutorial will describe deploying primary and secondary BIND servers as authoritative name servers. This is suitable for public or private name servers, however, internal private name servers will usually include recursive and caching elements for local DNS resolution. It is highly recommend that primary and secondary name servers are deployed on separate networks and in separate physical locations. This allows the necessary redundancy should one name server become unavailable d...