Archive for the 'DNS' Category

Creating and restoring an image of hard disk with Clonezilla

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Clonezilla is an open source disk imaging, cloning and backup software. It supports ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, and HFS+ of Mac OS. You can use it to clone single or multiple machines. It is more feature-rich than commercial Norton Ghost. In this video tutorial, I will [...]

Explore domain name resolution tools in Linux

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Often times, we are faced with issues pertaining to DNS name resolutions. In this series of articles, I will explore different tools available in Linux that can help in DNS name resolutions. First we will look at the utility called host

Installing and configuring BIND9 DNS server

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

This video tutorial will show how to install and configure BIND9 DNS server on Red Hat 5, Centos 5 , Fedora or one of their derivatives. Checkout the text version of this tutorial. The tutorial was specifically written for Red Hat, Centos, Fedora and derivatives but it can be used for any Linux distributions.

Configuring Bind9 Domain name server on Centos or Red Hat

Monday, September 14th, 2009

In this tutorial I will show you how to set up simple but complete DNS system  on Red Hat or Centos. We, humans, are good at names while computers require IP numbers to communicate. To help us with that DNS comes to our rescue. BIND is open-source software that implements the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols for the Internet. The name BIND stands for “Berkeley Internet Name Domain”, because the software originated at the University of California at Berkeley.