DNS 4 beginner

[elf316]

Hello all ! Just want to say thank you in advance to all who will reply to my post.

Here's my dilemma, I do basic support in a company and I want to setup a red hat 9 server and learn something (want to get away from Windows ;-) ). I'm up to setting up a DNS server, but I'm confused about how to do it...
The network here already has DNS servers (192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.10) and I'm just a sub domain to the main one (we'll call it test.university.com). My linux box has the ip addy of 192.168.1.138.
BIND is installed, but I'm unsure of how to confiure it, if I can make it a primary or slave DNS server..?!?

Thanks again for all the input !

 

[ericbrunson]

This is not a newbie exercise, you need to read the documentation and understand WTF you're doing before you hose your name service.

Hints for you, your machine will be a secondary to the zone, you need to configure the primaries to allow zone transfers to your machine. Set up an acl in the named.conf on the primaries and then add an allow-transfer to that acl.

Your secondary should have something similar to this:

zone "brunson.com" {
type slave;
file "brunson.zone";
masters {
66.162.96.234;
};
};


When you configure all hosts correctly your machine will suck the zones down from the primaries when named starts up.