FreeBSD® Unleashed

Chapter 30. The Domain Name Server

In This Chapter

• Introduction to BIND

• Enabling the Name Server Daemon

• BIND Configuration File (named.conf)

• Creating a Zone File

• Configuring a Caching Name Server

We have seen in earlier chapters—particularly Chapter 22, “Introduction to Networking,” and Chapter 23, “Configuring Basic Networking Services”—how DNS (the Domain Name System) provides a common naming scheme for finding hosts on the Internet, rather than everyone having to memorize IP addresses. We have covered the process of setting up a FreeBSD machine to gather domain name information from a designated server. However, we must now come to the topic of configuring the FreeBSD machine to act itself as a domain name server, providing lookup information ...