LPIC-2 Exam 202

LPIC-2 207.1 Basic DNS server configuration

By The Urban PenguinMarch 7, 2014September 12th, 2022No Comments

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Description	Candidates should be able to configure BIND to function as a caching-only DNS server. This objective includes the ability to managing a running server and configuring logging.

Key Knowledge Areas:

BIND 9.x configuration files, terms and utilities

Defining the location of the BIND zone files in BIND configuration files
Reloading modified configuration and zone files
Awareness of dnsmasq, djbdns and PowerDNS as alternate name servers

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:

/etc/named.conf
/var/named/*
/usr/sbin/rndc
kill
host
dig

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