Configuring A Basic DNS Server _PLUS_ Client In Solaris 11

Configuring a Basic DNS Server + Client in Solaris 11

By paulie on Mar 04, 2013

https://blogs.oracle.com/paulie/entry/configuring_a_basic_nfs_server

Configuring the Server

The default install of Solaris 11 does not come with a DNS server, but this can be added

easily through IPS like so:

[paulie@griff ~]$ sudo pkg install service/network/dns/bind

Before enabling this service, the named.conf file needs to be modified to support the DNS

structure. Here's what mine looks like:

[paulie@griff ~]$ cat /etc/named.conf

options {

directory "/etc/namedb/working";

pidfile

"/var/run/named/pid";

dumpfile

"/var/dump/named_dump.db";

statisticsfile

"/var/stats/named.stats";

forwarders { 208.67.222.222; 208.67.220.220; };

};

zone "hillvalley" {

type master;

file "/etc/namedb/master/hillvalley.db";

};

zone "1.168.192.inaddr.

arpa" {

type master;

file "/etc/namedb/master/1.168.192.db";

};

My forwarders use the OpenDNS servers, so any request that the local DNS server can't

process goes through there. I've also setup two zones: hillvalley.db for my forward zone and

1.168.192.db for my reverse zone. We need both for a proper configuration. We also need to

create some directories to support this file:

[paulie@griff ~]$ sudo mkdir /var/dump

[paulie@griff ~]$ sudo mkdir /var/stats

[paulie@griff ~]$ sudo mkdir p

/var/run/namedb

[paulie@griff ~]$ sudo mkdir p

/etc/namedb/master

[paulie@griff ~]$ sudo mkdir p

/etc/namedb/working

Now, let's populate the DNS server with a forward and reverse file.

Forward file

[paulie@griff ~]$ cat /etc/namedb/master/hillvalley.db

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