[TriLUG] Setting up New DNS Server

[Matt Flyer via TriLUG]

I'm old school. I run Bind. If you set "forwarders" your DNS will cache queries and go to your forwarders, presumably your ISP. If you don't set these and enable the root hints it will recursively perform the lookups directly.

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> On May 28, 2017, at 12:42 PM, Steven Tardy via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
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>> On May 28, 2017, at 11:54 AM, Brian Blater via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
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>> They are able to resolve local hosts just not the internet.
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> Local DNS lookups is also know as authoritative. Internet DNS lookups is know as recursion. Research how to enable recursion/recursive on $dns-server.
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> Would help greatly to know what software you are using for your DNS server.
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