Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Conﬁguring and Administering the BIND Name Service

Conﬁguring a Primary Master Name Server

This section explains how to conﬁgure a primary master server in your

domain. It also describes the name server data ﬁles in the primary

master server conﬁguration. It contains the following sections:

• “To Create the Data Files for a Primary Master Server” on page 86

• “To Set the Default Domain Name” on page 88

• “The Primary Master Server’s Boot File” on page 106

• “The Primary Master Server’s Cache File” on page 107

• “The db.127.0.0 File” on page 109

• “The Primary Master Server’s db.domain Files” on page 111

• “The Primary Master Server’s db.net Files” on page 114

• “To Add a Host to the Domain Data Files” on page 116

• “To Delete a Host from the Domain Data Files” on page 117

To Create the Data Files for a Primary Master Server

1. Make sure the /etc/hosts ﬁle is up to date on the host that will be

the primary master server.

2. On the host that will be the primary master, create the

/etc/named.data directory, where the name server data ﬁles will

reside, and make it the current directory:

mkdir /etc/named.data

cd /etc/named.data

3. Issue the following command to generate the name server data ﬁles

from the /etc/hosts ﬁle:

/usr/sbin/hosts_to_named -d

domainname

-n

network_number

Following is an example:

/usr/sbin/hosts_to_named -d div.inc.com -n 15.19.8

4. Move the named.boot ﬁle to the /etc directory:

mv /etc/named.data/named.boot /etc/named.boot