Linux: BIND and DNS

Want a custom domain name for your Linux server? Learn how to configure BIND DNS on a CentOS 7 server, including different zone types and security.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know

1. Installing BIND

• Installing BIND

2. Types of Name Servers

• Caching name server
• Forwarding name server
• Authoritative-only name server
• Mixed-configuration name servers

3. Zone Configuration File

• Zone config files
• $TTL
• $ORIGIN
• SOA
• NS
• MX
• A
• CNAME
• PTR
• Other zone files

4. Basic Name Server Setup

• Get ready
• Create and verify the zone file
• Load and test the zone file
• Allow queries from localnets
• Reverse zone file
• External zone file

5. Advanced Name Server Setup

• Configure a secondary name server
• Register a name server
• Updating zones
• Serve a website
• Third-party email server setup
• MX and SPF records for email

6. Security Concerns

• TSIG
• RNDC
• DNSSEC

Conclusion

• Next steps