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DNS Acts As The Internet Directory Service For

DNS acts as the Internet directory service, allowing users to look up servers by name to get their IP addresses. It functions similarly to a phone book, allowing users to input a name instead of a number. DNS uses zone files to map names to addresses through record types like SOA, NS, A, PTR, MX, and CNAME. The Bind 9 software performs the DNS function through components like the named daemon, client-side resolver, and dig testing tool configured by the named.conf file and zone files.

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DNS Acts As The Internet Directory Service For

DNS acts as the Internet directory service, allowing users to look up servers by name to get their IP addresses. It functions similarly to a phone book, allowing users to input a name instead of a number. DNS uses zone files to map names to addresses through record types like SOA, NS, A, PTR, MX, and CNAME. The Bind 9 software performs the DNS function through components like the named daemon, client-side resolver, and dig testing tool configured by the named.conf file and zone files.

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DNS Servers • PTR maps addresses to names

Domain Name System • MX mail exchanger


DNS acts as the Internet directory service for • CNAME canonical name
all of these systems, allowing you to specify each
one by its hostname.

DNS allows you to look up individual server by Some parts of a zone file:
name and get its IP address, its unique
identifier on the Internet. • Serial number

Analogy: A phonebook on your smart phone. • Refresh


When sending a message, instead of number, you
input name to the “send to” field. • Retry

Other systems like DNS are: • Expiry

• NIS (Network Information Service): used • Minimum TTL


by Linux.
• WINS (Windows Internet Name Service)

So when you visit a Web site, you are actually


doing so using the site's IP address even though
you specified a host and domain name in the
URL. In the background your computer quickly
queried a DNS server to get the IP address that
corresponds to the Web site's server and domain
names. Now you know why you have to specify
one or two DNS server IP addresses in the TCP/IP
configuration on your desktop PC (in the
resolv.conf file on a Linux system and the TCP/IP
properties in the Network Control Panel on
Windows systems).

Bind 9:

performs DNS function.

3 Components:

1. named daemon that runs the DNS server side.

2. Resolver on client side (resolv.conf )

3. Dig: tool to test DNS servers

Parts of named.conf:

1. Zone file (forward zone)

contains mostly the information to resolve


queries. IP addresses map to its domain names. It
uses several record types:

• SOA start of authority

• NS for name server

• A hostname to address map

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