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Configure BIND DNS Split View

June 13, 2011 Linux Jesin A 1 Comment

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Configure BIND DNS Views and Split to respond to different DNS clients with different answers based on their IP address. If you have many computers connected via LAN among which one is a web server, within the local network you may want domain names to resolve to private IP addresses and from the internet it should resolve to the public IP address. This can be done with BIND’s split-horizon feature. Based on a list of IP addresses of clients the DNS server replies with the appropriate answer. Take note that if you decide to configure split view all zones should come under a view.Continue Reading…

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Setup Secondary (Slave) DNS Servers Free

May 21, 2011 Linux Jesin A 3 Comments

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Yes you read that right you can setup backup DNS servers for your domain without spending a penny. This tutorial will tell you how to do this. The primary (master) DNS server runs BIND in Linux OS, this process makes use of the free DNS hosting service provided by freedns.afraid.org, so you’ll have t0 setup the primary DNS server for your domain and allow the transfer of the domain’s zone records to ns2.afraid.org’s IP address. I assume you know how to setup a primary (master) DNS server in BIND, so I’ll show you how to edit the configuration files to allow zone transfers and to add a backup DNS server.Continue Reading…

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Types of DNS Records

November 2, 2010 Domains Jesin A 2 Comments

DNS (Domain Name System) is an internet system which translates domain names into IP addresses. This is the definition that you commonly see around the internet, but practically it does much more like resolving mail servers for a domain, mapping an alias name of a domain to another domain, inform mail servers which sources of emails they should trust when they receive email from a particular domain and the list goes on. To handle all these tasks DNS has certain records for each domain or zone as it is technically called. I’ll be listing out the most popular DNS records and some technical jargon related to DNS.Continue Reading…

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