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• Finding a syntax error in a zone data file

  

  By cricketliu : 15 September 2009 - 11:56 AM

  Find the log messages from the most recent restart or reload of the name server, reloading again if necessary. Then look for a message indicating the line of the zone data file that contains t...

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  • DNS
  • BIND
  • zone
  • named

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• How to handle Active Directory with a name sever

  

  By cricketliu : 15 September 2009 - 10:59 AM

  If you want to allow your Active Directory Domain Controllers to register their SRV records using dynamic update, make note that there are a number of different solutions to this pr...

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  • DNS
  • BIND
  • Active Directory
  • zone
  • Windows

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• How to secure zone transfers

  

  By cricketliu : 15 September 2009 - 10:27 AM

  If you want to secure zone transfers from a name server, use the allow-transfer substatement to specify the addresses of slave name servers allowed to transfer zones. Or, even be...

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  • DNS
  • BIND
  • zone
  • TSIG
  • ACL

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• How to change your zone's name server

  

  By cricketliu : 15 September 2009 - 09:52 AM

  If you can, arrange to have the old name servers running and authoritative for your zone throughout the change. This still makes the process easier. First, configure the new name servers as author...

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  • DNS
  • BIND
  • zone

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• How to modify zone data without restarting the name server

  

  By cricketliu : 15 September 2009 - 09:29 AM

  If you want to modify your zone data without restarting the name server, make the change to the zone data file. For BIND 9, run: # rndc reload domain-name-of-zone If you've modified mu...

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  • zone
  • rndc
  • BIND
  • DNS

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• How to test a name server's configuration

  

  By cricketliu : 15 September 2009 - 09:18 AM

  If you want to test a name server's configuration before putting it into production, use the named-checkconf and named-checkzone programs to check the named.conf file and zone...

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  • DNS
  • BIND
  • named-checkconf
  • named-checkzone
  • zone

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• How to allow dynamic updates with BIND

  

  By cricketliu : 14 September 2009 - 05:35 PM

  If you want to allow dynamic updates to one of your zones, use the allow-update zone substatement. For example: zone "foo.example" { type master; file "db.foo.example"; all...

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  • BIND
  • DNS
  • TSIG
  • zone
  • MNAME
  • SOA

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• How to find an offsite slave name server for your zone

  

  By cricketliu : 14 September 2009 - 05:23 PM

  If you need to find an offsite slave name server for one or more of your zones, ask your ISP whether slave name service is included in the package of services they offer you. If not, ask whet...

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  • DNS
  • zone
  • GNS
  • slave

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• Making the domain name of your zone point to your web server

  

  By cricketliu : 14 September 2009 - 04:47 PM

  You want the domain name of your zone to point to your web server. Add an A record to the domain name of your zone pointing to the IP address of your web server: foo.example. IN A 10.0.0....

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  • A record
  • domain
  • zone
  • DNS
  • CNAME

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• How to create a zone data file

  

  By cricketliu : 14 September 2009 - 03:39 PM

  Using your favorite editor, create a file in the primary master name server's working directory. Name the file after the zone whose resource records it will contain. For example, for the foo.exampl...

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  • DNS
  • zone
  • SOA

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