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Setting Up Bind as a Caching Name Server (DNS) on SLED 10

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2 February 2007 - 10:46am
Submitted by: Scott Morgan

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This is a simple how to to set up bind as a caching name server (dns) on linux. I originally set this up on a SUSE 10 desktop, but it should work on almost any Linux distro.

  1. Get Bind:

    Download the bind-9.3.3.tar.gz (or a newer version) from http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/
    Unzip it

    hostname:~ # tar -xvzf bind-9.3.3.tar.gz
  2. Build and Install Bind, As Root:
    hostname:~ # cd bind-9.3.3
hostname:~ # ./configure
hostname:~ # make
hostname:~ # make install
  3. Test Bind Install:
    hostname:~ # named -f

    In another terminal

    hostname:~ # dig adligo.com @127.0.0.1

    You should see a responce from the local named server.

  4. Add Named To Machine Startup:
    hostname:~ # cd /etc/init.d

    Create a file named named (no pun intended) that looks like this:

    NAMED_BIN=/usr/local/sbin/named

case "$1" in
    start)
    echo "Starting service named"
    $NAMED_BIN
    ;;
    stop)
    echo "Stopping service named"
    killproc -TERM $NAMED_BIN
    ;;
    *)
    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac
    hostname:~ # chkconfig -add named

    Try starting and stopping it:

    hostname:~ # service start named
hostname:~ # dig adligo.com @127.0.0.1

    You should see a responce from the local name server.

    hostname:~ # service stop named

    You should NOT see a responce from the local name server.

  5. Make Your Default (or 1st name server, 127.0.0.1):

    I did this through yast.

    Click to view.

    Figure 1


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It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.



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