DNS

[Waitman Gobble]

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Daniel Lewis
<innervisionnetwork at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Im new to freebsd 8.2 and the unix world. How do i setup dns to support my
> domain
>


Hi Daniel,

You probably want to use ISC bind in /usr/ports/dns

I recommend you read the O'Reilly book DNS and BIND.


Basic process -


Install and configure bind. If possible set up on two or more machines/ip.
IMHO it's less hassle to set up duplicate masters and rsync changes from
your 'main' install instead of setting up master/slave configurations.

create zone file for your domain, ie

$TTL 86400
example.com.    IN      SOA     ns1.example.com. ns at example.com. (
        2012010210
        28800
        7200
        1209600
        86400 )
example.com.    NS      ns1.example.com.
example.com.    NS      ns2.example.com.
example.com.    MX      0 mail.example.com.
example.com.    A       192.168.0.133
www.example.com.    A       192.168.0.133
*       IN      CNAME   www.example.com.

cname is good for people who enjoy making typos like wwww and ww


add your domain zone file to named.conf, ie

zone "example.com" IN {
        type master;
        file "example.com.hosts";
};


reload nameserver

rndc reload

export your nameservers to root ns, this process varies for registrar -
look for "use my own nameserver" or "create nameservers based on domain" in
your registrar help docs. Maybe you can contact internic/nsi directly
instead (?). Back in the old days users just spread around copies of the
hosts file.

Have fun.

Waitman Gobble
San Jose California USA