Wednesday, September 26, 2007

How-to-Setup-your-own-primary-and-secondary-name-servers

Simple Steps in creating your own name servers on redhat-release box.
STEP 1
Requirements:
Server with additional free virtual IP address.
Make sure that you have your domain and the associated name servers registered through your registrar such as enom, networksolutions, etc. Also make sure that the name servers reolves to your server.
First we need to get the following bind packages, Which can be installed using "yum install " command or using the command "up2date -i ".
After the install process is complete, you can check if the packages are installed using the command below. The below command shows that the packages are installed on the severs.
# rpm -qa|grep bind
bind-devel-9.2.1-16
bind-utils-9.2.1-16
bind-9.2.1-16
redhat-config-bind-1.9.0-13
STEP 2
After the above packages are installed we need to open/edit the file /etc/named.conf and then create a entry for our primary and secondary name servers.