Questions tagged [bind]
BIND is a free, open source software implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. The name BIND stands for "Berkeley Internet Name Domain", because the software originated in the early 1980s at the University of California at Berkeley. BIND is currently maintained and developed by the Internet Systems Consortium, a non-profit public benefit corporation with a mission to support a free and open internet.
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BIND sdb / mysql extension?
Im investigating this as a solution to managing a (growing) openvpn based network. Im not finding much documentation - and even fewer samples. Has anyone here had experience with this?
EDIT: I found ...
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How could a I make BIND 9 generate some log entries?
I am trying to figure out if I got my BIND server logging to a file correctly so that syslog-ng can read from named.log.
Is there anyway to get BIND to generate some log entries to test it?
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How to implement BIND and MSDNS in one Domain
We are about to setup a new web platform with a mix of Linux servers and MS servers, we are planning to utilise MSDNS for our AD domain and MS servers and will use Bind for our root nameservers for ...
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Multiple apache web server Redirect
I'm running my own DNS server and can manage my company domnain via my ISP. I have 1 public IP address
external request to www.mydomain.com and mail.domain.com is pass to my old local web server @ ...
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PowerDNS: multiple supermasters and transfering domain
I've got a setup with multiple supermasters (bind) and multiple superslaves (pdns). It all seems to work just fine, pdns is being updated when I'm adding or changing a domain. But, when I want to ...
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Visualizing DNS named query logs
Anyone out has suggestions as to what is available for visualizing logs produced by named?
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Setting up nameserver - bind [FreeBSD]
First of all sorry for bad English.
I'm a newcomer to FreeBSD, and I'm going to like it.
Before I tried FreeBSD, I had a Linux VPS (My ISP set it up for me). I decide to drop it in favor of FreeBSD ...
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how can i setup maradns / nsd server to answer a single IP address to any query
i tried the manual, but cant find how/if i can set it to answer single ip for all queries.
anyone tried any of these? which one works?
or any other smaller, secure bind alternatives?
tnx
nb. nsd: ...
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BIND9 does not listen on external ip
I'm trying to configure the bind to broadcast my domain around the external network, but my server is not listening on the external ip.
Everything works fine locally.
my web interface:
enp4s0: flags=...
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SERVFAIL on ANY query
We have a CNAME entry that points to an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer instance. For some reason, my mobile app can resolve this entry on wifi, but not 3G -- I imagine it's talking to a different name ...
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Can a BIND server be a slave to a non-BIND master DNS server?
If I have a master DNS that is not bind - can bind still slave to it? (ie does it use the DNS protocol or something else?).
Kind of related - but do people still do this or do they use some other ...
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NS record configuration not working in bind (bind9) on ubuntu
I have following zone file:
testzone.local. IN SOA MyUbuntu hostname (
6 ; Serial
3h ; Refresh after 3 hours
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dhcpd rewrite invalid client hostname for ddns
Im using isc-dhcpd and bind9 to do ddns.
It is mostly working, but updates from clients with invalid names, like "leif_opo5" or "Danfoss Connect CC" are rejected.
I changed the hostname for my phone ...
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Can't reverse DNS lookup with BIND9
I'm creating an local network bind server.
I wrote this config file
/etc/bind/named.conf.local
include "/etc/bind/zones.rfc1918";
acl localnet {
192.168.1.0/24;
127.0.0.0/8;
};
zone "example....
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An unsolvable DNS situation?
We are about to deploy a simple server in our small office to host the typical small office things (a mac server for email, calendar, contacts etc). We quickly run into this strange DNS problem:
The ...
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BIND DNS forwarding for external domain
I inherited an evironment that has a BIND server for our internal LAN. I noticed it doesn't have any forwarders for external request (i.e. google.com). How the heck does my laptop know that google.com ...
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Does PTR record format affect the reputation of the mail server
I wanted to know if the format of PTR record effect the reputation of the mail server for example:-
Exmaple:-1
dig -X 162.254.148.198 (this ip belongs to mail.setopati.com)
;; ANSWER SECTION:
198....
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Bind - Resolve two domains with a single server
I need a bit of help with BIND (Centos 7.5)
Bit of a back story:
We are running two domains on the network. One called company.domain.com and one called comp.domain.com
company.domain.com has ...
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Design a DNS Master/Slave with SVN
I am looking for a good design of a master, slave DNS servers with SVN. Few doubts bothering me are:
Would it be good if I have a post-commit hook to replicate/rsync the DNS master data to the slave?
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Comprehensive Unix BIND DNS guide [closed]
I'm running the latest version of CentOS on which I'm currently hosting Node.js projects with MongoDB and Lighttpd.
Everything is running very smooth but now I want to manage my own DNS on the ...
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What is the behavior of a DNS resolver if one authoritative name server does not have particular record but another one does
Say I have sent a query for TXT record for m1._domainkey.amazon.com
nslookup -q=txt m1._domainkey.amazon.com
Say the authoritative nameservers for amazon.com are
amazon.com nameserver = ns1.amzndns....
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How to resolve sub-domains in bind9?
In our company we have separate /24 subnets from one big class B (/16) address.
(refer to the picture)
I am working in domain1.company.com and from there I am able to resolve all hostnames in the same ...
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What's the issue of have all dns server as master zone
I want to configure 4 dns server using bind. Is there any problem to configure all of them as master with no dns transfer.
# server one
zone "example1.com" {
type master;
file "example1.com....
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Evaluating nameserver
We are planning to set up our own dns-server for managing all our subdomians. I wan't to set the leasetime to 1 hour. We going to expect a peak amount of 20 Million DNS requests per hour.
I want to ...
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Misconfigured DNS / Nameserver?
I just moved my website to a new server. New server IP = 217.23.9.121
I'm running my domain on IntoDns.com
It showing me errors such as:
-Missing nameservers reported by your nameservers
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Own office DNS server on Ubuntu 11.4-server
Can anyone help me (I'm stuck) with configuring DNS server?
Description:
We have one Ubuntu 11.4-server machine and 3 Ubuntu 11.4-secktop.
Local IP addresses:
Ubuntu 11.4-server: 192.168.1.3
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DNS Bind9 two IP addresses set up to point to a single server
I'm trying to setup my own DNS for a couple of domains that I have. However, I know some domain registrars require two different IPs or two different name servers. I would like to use only one server ...
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If I set up a DNS server, will I need to buy a domain name from Godaddy?
Suppose I have a server in my network that would like to talk to the database server.
How would it talk to the DNS, and then point to the database server?
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DNS Zone File returns Error about my A records. Bind9 Ubuntu 22.04
I am trying to setup a guest ubuntu 22.04 DNS/DHCP server on a ProxMox Host. My error message when running
I have my domain registered via cloudfare ("Not shown in the file", and the domain ...
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Pointing My Domain Name to my VPS
I have purchased a domain name and I asked them how to bind to my VPS. They answered, I should either use a control panel or create my own DNS server. So following guidelines about how to install BIND ...
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DNS server for fake domain, for internal testing usage only (on Linux)
Let's say that I have several machines (or VMs) on an internal (10.0 or 192.168 class) LAN, that need to communicate with each other, but instead of configuring a somewhat dynamic, tedious to keep ...
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Deny foreign domains requests with bind9
I have 2 bind9 servers adjusted as Authoritative-Only DNS Servers.
I've noticed that dnstop shows a lot of requests for foreign financialresearch.gov domain (not mine). There are more than 50k ...
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BIND - DNS Reverse zone : No current Owner
I'm doing a internal test (Centos 7 Virtual) about how to setup a DNS server.
Using bind i had no problem to get a named-checkzone -D with an OK syntax at the end.
but when i'll try to get the ...
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Delete a zone from named.conf with shell script
I am trying to delete an existing zone record from bind's named.conf file (on a centos 7 release).
The zone record looks like that:
zone "example.com" IN {
type master;
file "example....
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BIND DNS: how to override RR generated by $GENERATE directive?
I'm running an authoritative nameserver for a reverse /16 zone, where every IP is mapped to a custom subdomain.
This is achieved by a zone file with 256 $GENERATE directives, for example (subnet 11.22....
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BIND 9 - How do I enter a DNS record for the main domain?
Let's say I have a domain named example.com.
The subdomains on that work, however I cannot attach example.com to an IP Address of its own.
wifi IN A 1.1.1.1 ; -Works (wifi.example.com)
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Bind9 doesn't start on boot with Ubuntu 16.04
I'm using a VPS, and with the Ubuntu 16.04 image I can successfully install bind9, but it doesn't start on boot. There's no named or bind9 under /etc/init.d. Running service bind9 start works as ...
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bind master slave. What if MASTER dies
Ok,
Let's say I have 2 BIND servers (master & slave), the master fail's.
The slave still answer to the queries... However, they do not have the zone files on the file system...
If I reboot the ...
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Inserting mx records in forward zone
What is the correct way (and why) to add MX records to a forward zone using bind9?
Option A
@ IN MX 10 mx1.example.com.
@ IN MX 20 mx2.example.com.
mx1.example.com. IN A a.b.c.d
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Configuring bind9 to resolve all queries to the same IP
I am trying to configure a DNS server on Ubuntu 13.10, so that any DNS query inside our local network would be resolved to 192.168.0.101.
I have tried different things, followed a few tutorial, but ...
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Encrypting BIND DNS Zone Transfers
Is there any BIND functionality to provide privacy (encryption) for zone transfers. TSIG and DNSSEC provide authentication. Maybe I am being paranoid!
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DNS forwarders limitations
My question is very simple (maybe a tad too simple), but I will try and phrase it in a way to hopefully assist future visitors.
I have just set up (successfully I hope) a DNS server at with some name ...
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configure secondary dns server debian
I have two VPS. I would like to use second one as a secondary dns server.
both VPS are Debian 6. how I could do that?
is it enough that I install bind9 and copy zone files from first VPS to second VPS?...
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Nameserver not visible from the internet
I'm setting up a dns server using Bind9. It seems to be functioning properly when i use nslookup locally, but I am unable to connect to it from the outside world. I've confirmed that iptables is not ...
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BIND not reading /etc/hosts on MacOSX Lion
With BIND (named) enabled on an OS-X Lion iMac, DNS lookups look at /etc/hosts only after checking with BIND and hence I can't override addresses using the hosts file. BIND does not even seem to ...
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Make server use it's own DNS first to resolve domain names
I have a bind server setup on my mac OS lion,
And I have a few domains like myproject.com point to the same server using the configurations here:
Mac Os Server, how to make bind point www.mydomain....
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BIND - why duplicate nameserver entries (@ and *)?
I had to manually tweak my DNS service providers BIND file.
BIND file, created by professional hosting company, before:
$ORIGIN mycoolsite.com.
$TTL 300
@ SOA ns1.cheapreg.com. registry....
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How do I make my internal dns forward requests to a given server
We have a DNS server internally that looks up IP addresses for all internal hosts and connects to root dns servers for all other domains (the rest of the internet). Here is my config
options {
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Bind9 - Forward specific record to another name server
I have a master zone (example.com) and several A records that belong to that zone (server1.example.com, server2.example.com, etc.). Those records resolve to internally hosted servers. I want to ...
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What commands can I use to simulate letsencrypt adding the TXT field to my server?
I'm trying to debug my DNS setup for the letsencrypt challenge.
I understand that BIND9 may not be receiving the requests, although it was earlier in the day. The .jnl does not get created, ...
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