{"id":1177,"date":"2018-03-15T07:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T07:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fir3netwp.gmsrrpobkbd.com\/2018\/03\/15\/how-to-configure-a-bind-server-on-ubuntu\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T02:50:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T02:50:39","slug":"how-to-configure-a-bind-server-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/UNIX\/Linux\/how-to-configure-a-bind-server-within-ubuntu.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Configure a BIND Server on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6626da66bf42f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6626da66bf42f\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/UNIX\/Linux\/how-to-configure-a-bind-server-within-ubuntu.html\/#Introduction\" title=\"Introduction\">Introduction<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/UNIX\/Linux\/how-to-configure-a-bind-server-within-ubuntu.html\/#Install_BIND\" title=\"Install BIND\">Install BIND<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/UNIX\/Linux\/how-to-configure-a-bind-server-within-ubuntu.html\/#Configure_BIND\" title=\"Configure BIND\">Configure BIND<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/UNIX\/Linux\/how-to-configure-a-bind-server-within-ubuntu.html\/#Point_BIND_to_Zones\" title=\"Point BIND to Zones\">Point BIND to Zones<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/UNIX\/Linux\/how-to-configure-a-bind-server-within-ubuntu.html\/#Add_Reverse_Zones\" title=\"Add Reverse Zones\">Add Reverse Zones<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/UNIX\/Linux\/how-to-configure-a-bind-server-within-ubuntu.html\/#Add_Forward_Zones\" title=\"Add Forward Zones\">Add Forward Zones<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/UNIX\/Linux\/how-to-configure-a-bind-server-within-ubuntu.html\/#Restart_BIND\" title=\"Restart BIND\">Restart BIND<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/UNIX\/Linux\/how-to-configure-a-bind-server-within-ubuntu.html\/#Check_Zones\" title=\"Check Zones\">Check Zones<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/UNIX\/Linux\/how-to-configure-a-bind-server-within-ubuntu.html\/#Test_DNS_Lookups\" title=\"Test DNS Lookups\">Test DNS Lookups<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Introduction\"><\/span>Introduction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Within this article, we will configure a BIND server within Ubuntu. The advantages of having a local DNS server include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduced latency to DNS requests\/responses<\/li>\n<li>Ability to add private addresses and full flexibility\u00a0of zone\u00a0names. Especially\u00a0useful for VMware installations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is important to note that the steps provided, are based on a quick setup. Due to this, no security measures have been implemented and also no master\/slave DNS setup is built.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Install_BIND\"><\/span>Install BIND<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>First of all, we install the required packages.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">sudo apt-get -y update\r\nsudo apt-get -y install bind9 bind9utils bind9-doc<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Configure_BIND\"><\/span>Configure BIND<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Next, we configure our BIND configuration file like so. The key additions here are the DNS forwarders, which are configured to forward any DNS queries to Google DNS. This will occur in the event that our DNS server is unable to answer the DNS query itself.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">root@service-host:~# cat \/etc\/bind\/named.conf.options\r\noptions {\r\n        directory \"\/var\/cache\/bind\";\r\n        recursion yes;\r\n\r\n        allow-recursion { any; };\r\n        allow-query { any; };\r\n        allow-query-cache { any; };\r\n        \r\n        forwarders {\r\n                8.8.8.8;\r\n                8.8.4.4;\r\n        };\r\n        auth-nxdomain no;\r\n        dnssec-validation auto;\r\n};\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Point_BIND_to_Zones\"><\/span>Point BIND to Zones<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Next, we configure and instruct BIND where it can find each forward and reverse BIND file.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">root@service-host:~# cat \/etc\/bind\/named.conf.local\r\nzone \"donatolabs.net\" {\r\n        type master;\r\n        file \"\/etc\/bind\/db.donatolabs.net\";\r\n};\r\n\r\nzone \"102.168.192.in-addr.arpa\" {\r\n        type master;\r\n        file \"\/etc\/bind\/db.192\";\r\n};\r\n\r\nzone \"236.29.172.in-addr.arpa\" {\r\n        type master;\r\n        file \"\/etc\/bind\/db.172\";\r\n};<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Add_Reverse_Zones\"><\/span>Add Reverse Zones<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We are now at the stage we can start adding our zones. First, we add the reverse DNS zones.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">root@service-host:~# cat \/etc\/bind\/db.192\r\n$TTL    604800\r\n@ IN SOA ns.donatolabs.net. root.ns.donatolabs.net. (\r\n                              1         ; Serial\r\n                         604800         ; Refresh\r\n                          86400         ; Retry\r\n                        2419200         ; Expire\r\n                         604800 )       ; Negative Cache TTL\r\n;\r\n@      IN      NS     ns.\r\n8     IN      PTR     vcenter.donatolabs.net.\r\n9     IN      PTR     nsxmgr.donatolabs.net.<\/pre>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">root@service-host:~# cat \/etc\/bind\/db.172\r\n$TTL    604800\r\n@ IN SOA ns.donatolabs.net. root.ns.donatolabs.net. (\r\n                              2         ; Serial\r\n                         604800         ; Refresh\r\n                          86400         ; Retry\r\n                        2419200         ; Expire\r\n                         604800 )       ; Negative Cache TTL\r\n;\r\n@      IN      NS     ns.\r\n138    IN      PTR    esx1.donatolabs.net.<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Add_Forward_Zones\"><\/span>Add Forward Zones<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The forward zone is next added.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">root@service-host:~# cat \/etc\/bind\/db.donatolabs.net\r\n; BIND data file for local loopback interface\r\n;\r\n$TTL    604800\r\n@ IN SOA ns.donatolabs.net. root.ns.donatolabs.net. (\r\n                              2         ; Serial\r\n                         604800         ; Refresh\r\n                          86400         ; Retry\r\n                        2419200         ; Expire\r\n                         604800 )       ; Negative Cache TTL\r\n;\r\n@       IN      NS      ns.donatolabs.net.\r\n@       IN      A       172.29.236.139\r\n@       IN      AAAA    ::1\r\nns      IN      A       172.29.236.139\r\nesx1    IN      A       172.29.236.138\r\nvcenter IN      A       192.168.102.8\r\nnsxmgr  IN      A       192.168.102.9<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Restart_BIND\"><\/span>Restart BIND<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We restart BIND, so all of our changes take effect.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">service bind9 restart<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Check_Zones\"><\/span>Check Zones<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To ensure the syntax of our zone files is correct, we run the command\u00a0<span class=\"codeinline\">named-checkzone<\/span>.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">named-checkzone 236.29.172.in-addr.arpa \/etc\/bind\/zones\/db.172 named-checkzone donatolabs.net db.172.236<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Test_DNS_Lookups\"><\/span>Test DNS Lookups<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>And finally, to ensure everything is fully we run a series of nslookups.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">\/\/ Reverse DNS lookup<\/pre>\n<p>root@service-host:~# nslookup 172.29.236.138 172.29.236.139 Server: UnKnown<br \/>\nAddress: 172.29.236.139 138.236.29.172.in-addr.arpa name = esx1.donatolabs.net.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">\/\/ Forward DNS lookup\r\n root@service-host:~# nslookup esx1.donatolabs.net 172.29.236.139 Server: UnKnown\r\nAddress: 172.29.236.139  Name:   esx1.donatolabs.net Address: 172.29.236.138<\/pre>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">\/\/ Test Forwarders\r\nC:\\Users\\donato&gt;nslookup www.fir3net.com 172.29.236.139\r\nServer: UnKnown\r\nAddress: 172.29.236.139\r\nNon-authoritative answer:\r\nName: www.fir3net.com\r\nAddresses: 2a02:e980:16::62\r\n2a02:e980:15::62\r\n199.83.131.98\r\n199.83.129.98\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Within this article, we will configure a BIND server within Ubuntu. 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