Chapter 9. BIND DNS Server

Chapter 9. BIND DNS Server
Figure 9-2. Creating a Forward Master Zone
A new page with many icons will be displayed: don’t worry since most of them can be ignored if you do not
need advanced configuration. You will be able to add all network machine names through this page, but you
should create the reverse part of your master zone first. In fact, a DNS zone is composed of two parts; one for
name-to-address conversion (i.e.: forward) and another for address-to-name conversion (i.e.: reverse).
Then, select Return to the zone list and choose Create a new master zone once more but this time, you must
change the selection from Forward to Reverse. Instead of writing your domain name, you must write the
network class like described: for a 192.168.1.0/24 network, you should write 192.168.1.
Figure 9-3. Creating a Reverse Master Zone
9.2.2. Recording Your Network’s Computers
This step is the only one you have to restart each time you add a new machine in your network; all other
parameters are configured only once, as long as your network does not change and you do not add other DNS
servers.
Return to the zone list and select one of the new Existing DNS Zones (in our example, they are named
192.168.1 or mydomain.test). If you select mydomain.test, click on Address and you can add as many machi-
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