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What Is DNS and How Does It Work – A Comprehensive Guide
I have been using Bind9 as my home LAN DNS for the past few years. I originally operated it on bare metal on my home router computer. In mid 2023 I successfully moved my Bind9 primary instance to my main home server in a container and created a slave instance in a container running on my home router computer. I created a Docker Bind9 Image using base Docker Alpine Linux images, with S6 init system.

The main router must be set to forward packets! The ability to forward packets must be set / allowed, edit or add the following parameters in sudo vim /etc/sysctl.conf:

  • net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
  • net.ipv4.conf.all.proxy_arp = 1
  • sudo sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1 similar for ipv6

After applying these changes reboot or apply setting using sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf

  • /usr/sbin/named -f -4 to start the isc-bind9 application called named,
    • -f to run in foreground
    • -4 to run ipv4 only
  • rndc stop to stop named - need to implement this in S6
  • rndc reload to reload the named configuration files
  • named-checkconf /etc/bind/named.conf
  • named-checkzone kptree.net /etc/bind/db.kptree.net
  • named-checkzone 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa /etc/bind/db.1.168.192
  • cat /log/named/bind.log to list bind log file
    • rndc dumpdb -zones
    • cat /var/bind/named_dump.db to see the database dump
    • named-checkconf -l does this option still exist?
    • named-checkconf -p for a flatened uncomment listing of the configuration files

I have setup a primary DNS server and secondary slave DNS server.

  • The primary DNS server runs on my main home server, it is the master
  • The secondary DNS server runs on my router, it is set up as a slave server from the primary server and reads the zone files from the master when available.
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  • Last modified: 2024-01-10 Wed wk02 19:20
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