Setting up BIND as a resolving DNS server
This recipe teaches you how to set up a resolving DNS server using BIND. Domain Name Service (DNS) is the unsung workhorse of the Internet, which translates memorable names such as facebook.com and google.com to IP addresses such as 172.217.18.238 and 31.13.76.68.
Communication across the Internet uses IP addresses to identify systems, but numbers are hard for people to remember. For example, it's easier for us to remember google.com than 172.217.18.238 (or the IPv6 address 2607:f8b0:4006:80e::200e). So, when you type google.com in your browser's address bar, your system queries a DNS server to resolve the name to its IP address and then requests the page from the web server at that address. When you write ...
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