Setting up DNS Server on RedHat

Doing my final year project on DNS Server using RedHat 9.

Can anyone explain 2 me wot that mean when I have to modify the named.conf file

zone "somefakedomain.com" IN {
type master;
file "somefakedomain.com.zone";
allow-update { none; };

What is that somefakedomain.com

Thx
Imtek

 

I doubt anyone here will help you much. The whole point of Uni is to prove you can think for yourself, and the IT industry doesn't need more graduates that can't. Good luck, I think you're going to need a lot of it.

 

It's exactly what it says it is... some_fake_domain.com... make something up, but ensure it doesn't exist.

My friends 7 year old looked up from his psp and just explained that to me :lol:

 

'somefakedomain.com' is the name of your domain ...you can use any name ....whatever you want........i guess this might help you....

 

Ah ok..so i should also put an IP address..from what does that IP come from..Is it the IP on whick I am setting the DNS or the IP of the domain?

Here is the syntax in the zone file..

$TTL 86400
$ORIGIN somefakedomain.com.
@ IN SOA ns1.somefakedomain.com. admin.somefakedomain.com. (
2004042601 ; serial
21600 ; refresh
3600 ; retry
604800 ; expires
86400 ) ; minimum

IN NS ns1.somefakedomain.com.

IN MX 10 mail.somefakedomain.com.

IN A 192.168.1.200

ns1 IN A 192.168.1.200
www IN A 192.168.1.200
ftp IN A 192.168.1.200
mail IN A 192.168.1.200

 

if you want to create your own DNS server then use the IP address of your machine only.
one more thing , what about the reverse and forward lookup file and your named.conf file. Are you done with the configuration of these files also.

 

Since when did we drop back into the habit doing peoples college assignments for them?

 

Don't look at me, I was tempted to write a page or two full of nonsense just to waste time but my conscience got the better of me again.