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DNS and BIND: Create a Caching Name Server
Creating a caching name server is the most basic BIND configuration. This configuration is the main building block for other more advanced BIND configurations. Students will learn to configure a caching name server and test name resolution with the `nslookup` command.
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Install the bind and bind-utils Packages
$ yum install -y bind bind-utils -
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Verify the named Configuration for localhost
$ cat /etc/named.conf -
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Check the named Configuration with the named-checkconf Command
$ named-checkconf -
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Start and Enable the named Service
$ systemctl start named $ systemctl enable named -
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Test that Records are Returned for google.com Using the /etc/resolv/conf and the localhost Name Server Configurations
$ nslookup google.com $ nslookup google.com localhost
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