[afnog] How to build a DNS Server

Fri Feb 13 06:06:39 UTC 2009

Yahya,

Adding to the information been provided from other members in Afnog, the following two links will give you information on how DNS server works and setting up a DNS server using bind9.

http://www.howtoforge.com/traditional_dns_howto

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch18_:_Configuring_DNS

Friendly advice: Try on do a lil bit of googling next time. You will get a lot of howto's and guides in setting up a dns server and other servers.

Regards,
Elly

--- On Fri, 2/13/09, SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote:
From: SM <sm at resistor.net>
Subject: Re: [afnog] How to build a DNS Server
To: "Rob Thomas" <robt at cymru.com>
Cc: afnog at afnog.org
Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 9:10 AM

At 16:38 12-02-2009, Randy Bush wrote:
> perhaps having a hard coded bogon list is not doing the community
> any favors in this day and age.  the community has learned with
> great pain that they are not maintained and cause serious problems
> debugging.

The bogon list is only correct at some point in time.  There were allocations
during each of the last six months.  Most people installing DNS servers will use
this configuration as a fire and forget template.  It is the same problem as
router ACLs.

It is better to move the bogon list for networks that should never be seen on
the Internet out of the secure BIND template.  You could put it on a separate
web page with the usual warnings.  That is if you think that the advantages of
having such a filter outweighs the problems they may cause.

Regards,
-sm 

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