How to: Learning the Fundamentals of Traditional DNS on a Linux Server

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How to: Learning the Fundamentals of Traditional DNS on a Linux Server

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How to: Learning the Fundamentals of Traditional DNS on a Linux Server

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BIND comes with three components. The first components we called named or name-dee. It's a daemon that runs the server side of DNS. That will make sense in a little while.

The second component of BIND we call the resolver library. People think of a resolver as the client side of BIND. The resolver code makes queries of DNS servers in an attempt to translate a friendly name to an IP address. This component uses the resolv.conf file. Does that sound like a UNIX abbreviation. It should because it is.

The third component of BIND provides tools for testing you DNS server. We call them tools but they are really a set of command line utilities like dig. Go to your console and type dig yahoo.com and see what happens. We will look at this later.

full tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/traditional_dns_howto

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