Installing and Administering Internet Services

Chapter 3 73
Configuring and Administering the BIND Name Service
Configuring a Primary Master Name Server
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 73
• “To Set the Default Domain Name” on page 75
• “The Primary Master Server’s Boot File” on page 75
• “The Primary Master Server’s Cache File” on page 76
• “The db.127.0.0 File” on page 77
• “The Primary Master Server’s db.domain Files” on page 79
• “The Primary Master Server’s db.net Files” on page 82
• “To Add a Host to the Domain Data Files” on page 84
• “To Delete a Host from the Domain Data Files” on page 85
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: