Today we are going over one of the fundamental aspects of administering a DNS infrastructure, that is maintaining consistency across multiple replicas. The simplest method of accomplishing this is to have a master/slave relationship. Essentially you have a read-write (master) copy and a read-only (slave) copy of the zone. The…
Solaris 11: Install Bind Server
Today I am going to document the process of install BIND in Solaris 11. I am using a Solaris 11.1 zone for this task, though nothing in this is specific to zones, and it should work on previous versions of Solaris 11. I have done this quite a few times…
Using Views with BIND 9 Part 2
BIND 9 gives us the ability to run a split DNS configuration on a single server, in this article we will go over the configuration of slave servers which will transfer the zones from the master while still maintaining its views. Now before we go any further, if you do…
Using Views with BIND 9
In almost all organizations the network infrastructure needs to be designed in such a way as to allow both internal and external name resolution authoritatively. In most organizations this has been accomplished by having separate internal and external servers. Clearly this way is functional and simpler, however it is also…