BIND 9: Configure Slave Zones

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Today we are going over one of the fundamental aspects of administering a DNS infrastructure, that is maintaining consistency across multiple replicas. The simplest method of accomplishing this is to have a master/slave relationship. Essentially you have a read-write (master) copy and a read-only (slave) copy of the zone. The slave looks to the master for information on changes.

Basic BIND Configuration

Here we are going to look at the key components of a BIND configuration, this should be the same regardless of if this is a master or a slave server.

Using Views with BIND 9

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

In almost all organizations the network infrastructure needs to be designed in such a way as to allow both internal and external name resolution authoritatively. In most organizations this has been accomplished by having separate internal and external servers. Clearly this way is functional and simpler, however it is also wasteful considering how little resources DNS actually requires. BIND 9 gives us a new method to manage these types of configurations. The idea is that you can create a view which will reference specific zones based on the network location that you are coming from.

DNS on the bin

BIND 9: Configure Slave Zones

Using Views with BIND 9