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.