DNS Server Setup for Centos

INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING DNS SERVER VM

After  reading this, you will be able to:

1.    Install DNS application

2.    Configure the DNS server for it to:
a.     Resolve domain names to their IP address and vise versa
b.    Can successfully  process the ICMP (ping) the domain names or IP address
 3.    Install  bind-utils application
a.     Can process the nslookup application

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TO BE NOTED:  MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE ALREADY CONNECTED TO THE NETWORK FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO INSTALL ANY APPLICATION.   IT SHOOULD BE IN A NETWORK ADAPTER FIRST AND THE BOOTPROTOCOL SHOULD BE DHCP AS WELL AS THE ONBOOT=YES  NM_CONTROLLED=YES

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Actual Start:

1.     Login to your VM Server and type yum install bind

2.     After the installation type yum install bind-utils

1.        

     CONFIGURE THE FOLLOWING:

( change the NM_CONTROLLED to “no” Bootprotocol  to “none” since we manually give the IP address , Netmask,

DNS, your domain name, and if possible put the DEFROUTE=yes”