DNS how to

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:29:21PM +0200,
 Adriatik Allamani <aallamani at ert.gov.al> wrote 
 a message of 20 lines which said:

> I am new in using linux, an so on DNS Servers.

See Chris Buxton's excellent advices about Unix and Internet servers.

> I need to set up a DNS server but I don't have many knowledge?

Besides the basic Unix abilities, the reference paper book for DNS is:

DNS and BIND, Fifth Edition
By Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu
Fifth Edition May 2006  
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dns5/

You can also learn online:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_system
http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/

Also, since ERT is in charge of the TLD ".al", you may also consider
DNS training sessions for ccTLD, such as organized by ISOC
(http://ws.edu.isoc.org/workshops/) or (here comes the unsolicited ad)
AFNIC's International College
(http://www.afnic.fr/afnic/international/college).

> I want to set up DNS Server using BIND. The OS is CentOS 4.5. i have got
> some tutorials on how to set up DNS server but I don't have a clear idea
> on how to do it.

You should first write down your requirments. Do you want:

* an authoritative name server, able to serve data to the whole world
for, say, ert.gov.al,

* or do you want a cahing recursive name server, allowing the users of
your local network to resolve www.afnic.fr or www.isoc.org?