Deploying Linux on IBM eServer pSeries Clusters

3.14. DNS server configuration

As a starting point we use the default caching only nameserver configuration provided by SuSE. The caching only name server forwards requests to other nameservers provided by keyword forwarders and caches the answers for better performance. This configuration is good enough if you only need to resolve names and addresses in the Internet.

In order to use local name resolution too, we add two new zone records: residency.local (name to IP address), and 100.168.192.rev for reverse name resolution (IP address to name). For debugging, we add the logging section because it forces the name server daemon to log all requests in /var/log/messages.^[18]

^[18] For more information see BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual: http://www.bind9.net/Bv9ARM.html ...