OpenBSD as a domain name server

Author: Daniele Mazzocchio
Applies to: OpenBSD 4.8
Last update: Dec 4, 2010
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Table of contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Domain Name System
  • 2.1 A few definitions
  • 2.2 The name resolution process
  • 2.3 Reverse name resolution
  • 2.4 Resource records
• 3. Base configuration
  • 3.1 The main configuration file
  • 3.2 The zone data files
  • 3.3 Starting Bind
  • 3.4 rndc(8)
  • 3.5 Adding a slave name server
• 4. Further Bind configuration
  • 4.1 Views and split namespace
  • 4.2 Delegation
  • 4.3 Auto-update and notify
  • 4.4 TSIG and security
  • 4.5 Logging
• 5. Appendix A
  • 5.1 First draft of the configuration and zone data files
    • 5.1.1 DMZ primary master
    • 5.1.2 DMZ secondary master
  • 5.2 Final version of the configuration and zone data files
    • 5.2.1 DMZ primary master
    • 5.2.2 DMZ secondary master
    • 5.2.3 LAN primary master
    • 5.2.4 LAN secondary master
• 6. Appendix B
  • 6.1 References
  • 6.2 Bibliography