Chapter V: DNS Server

Lecturer: Mr. Kao Sereyrath (MsCIT, India)

ICT Manager, Samic Microfinance
General Manager iCONNECT
www.iconnectcambodia.com

Email: gm@iconnectcambodia.com
H/P: 012 75 12 75 / 066 800 900
Domain Name System
Distributed Naming System to identify computers on network
You can use hosts file but need to manually register and update
Naming the computer on network conforms to below tree
Domain Name System (Cont.)
Root holds all the information on all the top-level domains
A top-level domain is anything that does not have a dot (a period)
after it. For example, .com and .org are both top-level domains
centosbook is a subdomain of the .com top-level domain.
All public domains are managed by ICANN (Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers)
Most of domains can be queried in www.whois.com
Step 1: Installing DNS Server packages
rpm -ihv bind-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6.i686.rpm
rpm -ihv bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6.i686.rpm
rpm -ihv bind-dyndb-ldap-2.3-2.el6.i686.rpm

Step 2: Configure named.conf
vi /etc/named.conf


Step 2: Configure named.conf (Cont.)
Step 3: Create forward zone file
vi /var/named/fwd.bb.com.kh

Step 4: Create Reverse zone file
vi /var/named/rev.bb.com.kh
Step 5: Starting named service
service named start
chkconfig named on
Step 6: Configure at Client side
Client will require to seek for DNS servers assistant for domain name
translation.

vi /etc/resolv.conf

Step 7: Testing DNS configuration
Step 7: Testing DNS configuration
You also can use:

ping www.bb.com.kh

host www
www.bb.com.kh has address 192.168.1.42

host masterdns
masterdns.bb.com.kh has address 192.168.1.42

nslookup www


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