HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials - DNS

PDNSD HowTo - A DNS Caching Personal Server (Fedora 16)

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:59:23 +0100

PDNSD HowTo - A DNS Caching Personal Server (Fedora 16)

PDNSD is a non authoritative caching DNS server. It maintains a disk cache of the queries that your system performs and subsequent queries will be faster from the cache. It is safe enough to be used on a personal Unix/Linux system as a home Desktop or a Laptop.

Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Debian Squeeze

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:24:07 +0200

Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Debian Squeeze

This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Debian Squeeze system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control panel for PowerDNS.

How To Run Your Own DNS Servers (Primary And Secondary) With ISPConfig 3 (Debian Squeeze)

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:14:36 +0200

How To Run Your Own DNS Servers (Primary And Secondary) With ISPConfig 3 (Debian Squeeze)

This tutorial shows how you can run your own DNS servers (primary and secondary) with ISPConfig 3. To do this, you need two servers with two different public IP addresses and with ISPConfig 3 installed. I will use Debian Squeeze for both DNS servers here to demonstrate the base system setup process and ISPConfig 3 installation, but once you have ISPConfig 3 installed on your servers, the configuration inside ISPConfig 3 is identical, no matter what distribution you use.

Setting Up A Spam-Proof Home Email Server (The Somewhat Alternate Way) (Debian Squeeze)

Mon, 16 May 2011 18:32:56 +0200

Setting Up A Spam-Proof Home Email Server (The Somewhat Alternate Way) (Debian Squeeze)

Email spam is a huge problem. I have found for myself quite a simple solution, however it'll take some time to "migrate" completely over to it. The solution is to create a unique email address everytime I have to give an email address to someone else or to some website to sign up. If I want an account at twitter, I'd use "www.twitter.com@MYDOMAIN.COM". For webbased services, I use the full domain name incl. subdomain (www) on the left of the @ (some poorly designed websites do not recognizes the www. as valid email address, for those I just leave it away).

Installing MyDNS-NG & MyDNSConfig On Debian Squeeze

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:22:20 +0100

Installing MyDNS-NG & MyDNSConfig On Debian Squeeze

This tutorial will describe how to install and configure MyDNS-NG and MyDNSConfig 3 on Debian Squeeze. MyDNS-NG is a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files. The advantage is that MyDNS simply reads the records from the database, and it does not have to be restarted/reloaded when DNS records change or zones are created/edited/deleted. A secondary nameserver can be easily set up by installing a second instance of MyDNS that accesses the same database or, to be more redundant, uses the MySQL master / slave replication features to replicate the data to the secondary nameserver.

Clean djbDNS DNS Server On CentOS - dnscache And tinydns - A To Z

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:58:36 +0200

Clean djbDNS DNS Server On CentOS - dnscache And tinydns - A To Z

What is djbDNS? And why do we use djbDNS? There is a new point of view to serve the dns service - each of the dns server functionalities is a separate service, like authority, cache, forward and so on. The other difference is the daemon-tools which will rapidly restart services to prevent zombies.

How To Run Your Own Name Server With ISPConfig 3 And Fast Hosts

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:44:00 +0200

How To Run Your Own Name Server With ISPConfig 3 And Fast Hosts

This tutorial shows how you can run your own name server for domains that you register with fasthosts.com. Of course, this works with every other registrar as well, although the procedure might differ a little bit. We will use the ISPConfig 3 server as the primary name server and also acting as the secondary. This may be suited best to a single server setup. To do this, you need one server with ISPConfig 3 installed and a Fast hosts account.

Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Debian Lenny

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:33:25 +0200

Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Debian Lenny

This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Debian Lenny system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control panel for PowerDNS.

Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Fedora 12

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:02:34 +0200

Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Fedora 12

This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Fedora 12 system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control panel for PowerDNS.

Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Ubuntu 9.10

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:35:00 +0200

Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Ubuntu 9.10

This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on an Ubuntu 9.10 system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control panel for PowerDNS.

Installing Nictool On CentOS 5

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:56:40 +0200

Installing Nictool On CentOS 5

Nictool is a free software for managing DNS, but for download we have to register at www.nictool.com; Nictool can export from djbdns, BIND, PowerDNS. All data is stored in MySQL and can be managed over the web using a browser. This tutorial shows how to install Nictool on CentOS 5.2.

Installing PowerDNS With MySQL On CentOS

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:07:49 +0100

Installing PowerDNS With MySQL On CentOS

PowerDNS is a MySQL-based DNS server, written in C++ and licensed under the GPL. PowerDNS can be managed through a web interface (PowerAdmin). This guide shows how to install it on CentOS.

Installation Of BIND As A Secondary (Slave) DNS Server On CentOS

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:53:34 +0100

Installation Of BIND As A Secondary (Slave) DNS Server On CentOS

After we have installed BIND as a master DNS server (NS1), we can now try to set up a secondary DNS server (NS2) with BIND on CentOS. NS2 acts as a backup if there are problems with NS1.

BIND Installation On CentOS

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:29:04 +0100

BIND Installation On CentOS

BIND is alternative software for translating domain names into IP addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic, they are easier to remember. So if we will browse the Internet we don’t need to remember IP addresses. For example, the domain name www.yourdomain.com might translate to 192.168.0.1.

Troubleshooting Common DNS Misconfiguration Errors

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:10:43 +0100

Troubleshooting Common DNS Misconfiguration Errors

DNS (Domain name system) may not be known to most people who use the Internet but it is the real invisible force driving the Internet without which everyone would be seeing numbers and IPs. The whole meaning of domain names exists today just because of DNS.