10 Jan

Build DNS server on ubuntu linux

By Acang

DNS (Domain Name Server) is server who provide translating ip address to name whos understandable or human readable, example 69.43.67.127 is for yahoo.com

hope this article help you

Step by step

  1. set ip address nic
  2. install bind package
  3. config bind server

1. set nic ipaddress

let say you have ip 10.10.10.254/24 eth0
execute this command on your terminal

"ip addr add 10.10.10.254/24 dev eth0"

you can make it permanent when you fill above script to rc.local file

2. install bind package

execute "apt-get install bind9"

3. config bind server

let say you want translate 10.10.10.254 to zoepha.co.cc

edit file named.conf on /etc/bind folder
put this on the bottom of file
zone "zoepha.co.cc" {
type master;
file "zoepha.co.cc.hosts";
};

zone "10.10.10.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "10.10.10.254.rev";
};

create file "10.10.10.254.ref" on /etc/bind folder, and fill this
$ttl 38400
@ IN SOA tanahbaru.zoepha.co.cc. root@zoepha.co.cc. (
1147923681
10800
3600
604800
38400 )

@ IN NS tanahbaru.zoepha.co.cc.
254 IN PTR http://www.zoepha.co.cc.
200 IN PTR mail.zoepha.co.cc.
create file "zoepha.co.cc.hosts" on /etc/bind folder, and fill this
$ttl 38400

@ IN SOA tanahbaru.zoepha.co.cc. root@zoepha.co.cc. (
1147923546
10800
3600
604800
38400 )

@ IN NS tanahbaru.zoepha.co.cc.
IN MX 10 tanahbaru.zoepha.co.cc.

@ IN A 10.10.10.254
tanahbaru IN A 10.10.10.254
pos IN A 10.10.10.200
www IN CNAME tanahbaru.zoepha.co.cc.
mail IN CNAME pos.zoepha.co.cc.


edit your "resolv.conf" file on /etc folder, for tell your linux to user internal name server
nameserver 10.10.10.254

restart your bind server with this command
/etc/init.d/bind9 restart

that's it, you have dns server who translate 10.10.10.254 to zoepha.co.cc, you can test it on console with this command "nslookup zoepha.co.cc"


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