Bind 9 DNS setup

squanto · Posted: Mon May 06, 2002 2:12 am Post subject: Bind 9 DNS setup

I realize that Bind and DNS setup is a very large topic, but I was wondering if anyone here in the Gentoo forums has some experience with it?
I am trying to get my webserver setup to use my registered domain. I have registered a domain and would like to get my server set up to use this domain. I have my domain registered thru networksolutions and I have changed the nameservers to point to my primary and secondary ips that I will run dns on.

I have used the linuxdoc.org dns howto, twice now, but to no avail. Has anyone gotten Bind 9 setup on Gentoo? if so could you point me to a good "new to dns" type of guide that would show me step by step how to set this up?

Thanks,
Andrew

edited on July 21, 2002 to take out the domain names, don't want to leave that up there too long till the site gets running.

Guest · Posted: Mon May 06, 2002 12:55 pm Post subject: Re: Bind 9 DNS setup

Give djbdns a try.
To tell the truth, I couldn't get BIND working either. :-)

Then someone recommended djbdns and I never looked back.

squanto · Posted: Mon May 06, 2002 2:34 pm Post subject:

OK, I will see what I can get going with djbdns, cause the bind people don't seem to like djbdns, and I hadn't really heard anything about it before. BIND seems kind of hardcore, but since most *nix DNS runs Bind, I didn't think it would be that hard to setup. :oops:

-Andrew

klieber · Posted: Mon May 06, 2002 4:35 pm Post subject:

djbdns doesn't comply to the RFC spec for DNS, which is why some folks don't like it. That said, it has proven to be much more secure than BIND has.

The reason BIND is so hard to set up (or at least one of the reasons) is because of the archane, convoluted syntax of its damn config files. Put one '@' in the wrong place and you're hosed. Very not-user-friendly.

If you want to go with BIND, then pick up the DNS and Bind Book by O'Reilly. Absolutely, positively the best book out there on DNS and/or BIND. It will walk you through all the underlying concepts of DNS (which is kind of a fascinating read if you're into that stuff) as well as tell you how to set up a BIND server.

hth

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squanto · Posted: Mon May 06, 2002 5:50 pm Post subject:

I was looking to purchase this book, but since I am headded home from college at the end of this week, I don't have my superfast internet connection anymore so I will look into it at the end of the summer, maybe a new version of BIND will be out.

Thanks for the suggestion, I did a little reading on djbdns, but since BIND is the standard, I figured it would give me some real world experience to setup BIND vs some other DNS.

Thanks,
Andrew

seaweed · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 53 Location: NJ, USA

I have been using BIND for a few years and have a good understanding. If you have specific questions I can assist.

If you are looking to buy the "DNS and BIND" book the latest edition is 4th.

squanto · Posted: Sun May 12, 2002 7:28 pm Post subject:

Thanks, I will probably be asking questions starting at the end of August, cause I am home from school now and don't have a ded connection to the internet anymore. thanks for the help though. I am going to buy the book in about a month or so.

-Andrew

Nitro · Posted: Sun May 12, 2002 10:26 pm Post subject:

Squanto:
I'd be more then happy to help you with any questions you may have regarding bind/named. I use bind on my webserver and run both the primary and secondary nameservers. If you need help setting it up, let me know.

Just becareful what you read, more times then not, when I was reading about bind, I was acutally reading about the wrong version.

I to tried djbdns after being very pleased with qmail, and was rather disappointed. Only thing I would recommend djbdns for is a caching only DNS server, again that is just my opinion.

I was wondering when we were going to get some actual "server" discussion in this forum.

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squanto · Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2002 5:41 pm Post subject:

I am going to purchase the bind book as soon as I get a new computer built. I will almost certainly have questions, so I will post them on the forum / pm you.

Thanks for the help,
Sorry it took so long for me to respond, summer vacation left me with little internet time :lol:

Andrew

squanto · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 1:32 am Post subject:

Seeing as this is an old post of mine, here is another question for you dns gurus out there.

Can I run bind9 on a non standard port?
If so, what needs to be changed? I am behind university firewall, and for ports less than 1024 only port 80 is open to outside world.
I would like to run dns so I don't have to pay someone else to do it for me, and cause I could learn something. I also would like to run my mailserver on a port other than standard, but my impression is that I could do that by modifying the MX tag in bind to use another port?

Thanks!

perra · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 5:43 am Post subject:

In named.conf in the "options" there is a statement which might help.

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squanto · Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 11:28 pm Post subject:

OK, thanks Klieber. I will try to find out from someone here at my school about opening up the port, since it isn't like there is really that much bandwidth taken up by a dns server, compared to something like a counterstrike or Quake server.

Thanks for the help!