Setting up a DNS server

[Paul F. Johnson]

Hi,

Anyone know of any easy to follow instructions of setting up a DNS
server under FC? I'm doing it all from the terminal, so no fancy GUI
interface stuff allowed ;-)

TTFN

Paul
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[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, January 31, 2005 10:55 PM +0000 Paul 
<paul(a)all-the-johnsons.co.uk&gt; wrote:

>  Anyone know of any easy to follow instructions of setting up a DNS
>  server under FC? I'm doing it all from the terminal, so no fancy GUI
>  interface stuff allowed ;-) 
Depends on what it will be used for. A simple caching name server can be 
made with "yum install caching-nameserver". This package is a set of BIND 
config files with a prereq on BIND, so it should set it all up for you. I 
set my first server up that way and learned everything else by editing 
those files.

[Jason Vas Dias]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:55, Paul wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  Anyone know of any easy to follow instructions of setting up a DNS
>  server under FC? I'm doing it all from the terminal, so no fancy GUI
>  interface stuff allowed ;-)
>  
>  TTFN
>  
>  Paul 
Start off by installing the 'caching-nameserver' package -
this configures a working caching-only nameserver (a nameserver
that is not authoritative for any zone, but which queries other
nameservers and caches responses).
If you need more than a caching-only nameserver, read the
documentation in /usr/share/doc/bind-*/arm/Bv9ARM.html .
If you can get access to a graphics terminal, using the 
'system-config-bind' utility provides a GUI, with a facility
to import /etc/hosts files.
Also for any beginner to DNS needing to get into serious
DNS configuration, the book 'DNS and BIND', Abitz & Liu, 2nd. Ed,
by O'Reilly is a must.
Let me know if you have any issues.
Regards, Jason Vas Dias
BIND maintainer, Red Hat.

[Peter Boy]

Am Montag, den 31.01.2005, 18:18 -0500 schrieb Jason Vas Dias:
>  On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:55, Paul wrote:
>  > Anyone know of any easy to follow instructions of setting up a DNS
>  > server under FC? I'm doing it all from the terminal, so no fancy GUI
>  > interface stuff allowed ;-)
>  > [...]
>
>  If you can get access to a graphics terminal, using the 
>  'system-config-bind' utility provides a GUI, with a facility
>  to import /etc/hosts files. 
I suppose, system-config-bind is currently not a good starting point.
The included help file is out of sync with the current program version.
So, for a starter is hard to figure out what has to be done.

I couldn't manage to let the program write a configuration file at all.
It always crashes with a python traceback when I instruct it to save the
configuration (I've to figure out weather I entered something wrong into
one of the entry fields or the program crashes by itself - so no
bugzilla entry yet).

>  Also for any beginner to DNS needing to get into serious
>  DNS configuration, the book 'DNS and BIND', Abitz & Liu, 2nd. Ed,
>  by O'Reilly is a must. 
The book should be a better starting point. Pick up one of the examples
and modify it acdcording to the specific need. If desired I can send you
a template for the requirred files.


Peter

[Jason Vas Dias]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 07:50, Peter Boy wrote:
>  Am Montag, den 31.01.2005, 18:18 -0500 schrieb Jason Vas Dias:
>  > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:55, Paul wrote:
>  > > Anyone know of any easy to follow instructions of setting up a DNS
>  > > server under FC? I'm doing it all from the terminal, so no fancy GUI
>  > > interface stuff allowed ;-)
>  > > [...]
>  >
>  > If you can get access to a graphics terminal, using the 
>  > 'system-config-bind' utility provides a GUI, with a facility
>  > to import /etc/hosts files.
>  
>  I suppose, system-config-bind is currently not a good starting point.
>  The included help file is out of sync with the current program version.
>  So, for a starter is hard to figure out what has to be done.
>  
>  I couldn't manage to let the program write a configuration file at all.
>  It always crashes with a python traceback when I instruct it to save the
>  configuration (I've to figure out weather I entered something wrong into
>  one of the entry fields or the program crashes by itself - so no
>  bugzilla entry yet).
>   
Yes, this is a known problem with system-config-bind < 4 .

Use the latest system-config-bind:
 
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/F...

and you should have no problems.

>  > Also for any beginner to DNS needing to get into serious
>  > DNS configuration, the book 'DNS and BIND', Abitz & Liu, 2nd. Ed,
>  > by O'Reilly is a must.
>  
>  The book should be a better starting point. Pick up one of the examples
>  and modify it acdcording to the specific need. If desired I can send you
>  a template for the requirred files.
>  
>  
>  Peter
>  
>

[Peter Boy]

Am Mittwoch, den 02.02.2005, 11:35 -0500 schrieb Jason Vas Dias:
>  > I couldn't manage to let the program write a configuration
> file at all.
>  > It always crashes with a python traceback when I instruct it to save the
>  > configuration (I've to figure out weather I entered something wrong into
>  > one of the entry fields or the program crashes by itself - so no
>  > bugzilla entry yet).
>  > 
>  Yes, this is a known problem with system-config-bind < 4 .
>  
>  Use the latest system-config-bind:
>   
>
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/F...
>  
>  and you should have no problems. 
I did that from the X64_86 tree (fully update Core 3 x86_64 system):

-------------------------------------------------------------------
[root@shuttle fedora-updates]# rpm -U  system-config-
   bind-4.0.0-3.noarch.rpm 
Warnung: /etc/pam.d/bindconf saved as /etc/pam.d/bindconf.rpmsave
Warnung: /etc/security/console.apps/bindconf saved
   as /etc/security/console.apps /bindconf.rpmsave
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.13899: line 11: fg: no job control
Fehler: %post(system-config-bind-4.0.0-3.noarch) scriptlet failed, 
   exit status 1
-------------------------------------------------------------------

rpm -q reports both versions being installed (2.0.3-1 and 4.0.0-3) and
system-config-bind doesn't even start anymore  :-)

-------------------------------------------------------------------
[pb@shuttle ~]$ system-config-bind
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/system-config-bind", line 37, in ?
    from BIND import *
  File "/usr/share/system-config-bind/BIND.py", line 12, in ?
    import Lookup
  File "/usr/share/system-config-bind/Lookup.py", line 16, in ?
    from   Hosts import Hosts
  File "/usr/share/system-config-bind/Hosts.py", line 12, in ?
    from Conf import *
ImportError: No module named Conf
-------------------------------------------------------------------



Is version 4 meant to work with stock Core 3?


Peter