Basics of BIND DNS Server

Name: Basics of BIND DNS Server
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Build your own DNS server from scratch in 20 mins

Created byYogesh Mehta

Last updated 12/2017

English

What you'll learn

Setting up Infra for BIND DNS server
Create BIND DNS server from scratch
How DNS name resolution works and how to create DNS records

Course content

1 section • 10 lectures • 49m total length

Introduction1:07
Introduction to BIND DNS Server4:50
LAB requirements & Setup details2:37
Pre-requesties & BIND installation6:14
Configure firewall for DNS5:06
Configure BIND to accept the DNS requests6:08
Configure bind to accept DNS requests by binding port 53 to the configured IP, updating named.conf, and restarting the service.
Configure domain zone configuration5:06
Create forward and reverse lookup files6:47
Validate and secure the DNS configuration5:19
Test the name resolution6:20
Quick Brainstorming on DNS
Quick Brainstorming on DNS

Requirements

Basics of any Linux/Unix
PC/Laptop/VM with 866Mhz CPU, 01GB RAM and 10G disk space
Super user access on Linux/Unix server

Description

BIND is open source software that enables you to publish your Domain Name System (DNS) information on the Internet, and to resolve DNS queries for your users. The name BIND stands for “Berkeley Internet Name Domain”.

Why to use BIND?

BIND is opensource.
You can tailor the BIND as per your Organization requirements.
Oldest and most commonly used DNS server.

In this quick course on BIND – we will discuss the following sections :

Introduction to BIND
LAB requirements & setup details
Pre-requesties & BIND installation
Configure firewall for DNS
Configure BIND to accpet the dns requests
Configure domain zone configuration
Create forward and reverse lookup files
Validate and secure the dns configuration
Test the name resolution

Who this course is for:

Anyone who want to learn the basics of BIND DNS server