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J. S. TonelloPractical Linux DevOpshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8318-9_3

3. Set Up a DNS Server

John S. Tonello1  
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Baldwinville, NY, USA
 

In this chapter, you’ll use your newly deployed virtualization environment to create and launch your first meaningful workload: a domain name server (DNS), which can map IP addresses to easy-to-remember names and generally make life easier.

An important component of a DevOps Linux lab is DNS because domains are critical to the way different nodes communicate, including how they make secure connections. Once launched, your DNS server will give your Linux lab a true resolvable domain, like example.com or devops.lab ...

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