Tuesday, 21 February 2023

DNS server configuration

Scope of my skills.

 

  • theoretical foundations of the DNS protocol
  • client DNS configuration
  • installation and initial configuration of BIND9.x server
  • creation and maintenance of DNS zones
  • primary, secondary, and stub zones
  • forward lookup zone and reverse lookup zone (revDNS)
  • configuration of records in the zone (SOA, NS, A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, SRV, TXT, etc.)
  • forwarding and conditional forwarding service
  • verification of zone configuration correctness
  • configuration of BIND server in a Chroot environment
  • configuration of split-horizon mechanism in BIND server
  • utilization of TSIG mechanism
  • awareness of DNSsec issues, usage of DANE and TLSA records
  • awareness of dnsmasq, djbdns, and PowerDNS existence.