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Installation Procedure for BIND in Ubuntu

  1. Install bind with the command given below
apt-get install bind9 bind9utils
  1. Open /etc/bind/ folder to modify named.conf.options and named.conf configuration files.
  2. Modify the named.conf.options file with the command
vim named.conf.options
  1. Check whether these parameters are uncommented as shown below-

dnssec-validation no; listen-on {127.0.0.1;};

auth-nxdomain no; # conform to RFC1035

//listen-on-v6 { any; };

  1. Modify the named.conf file with this command
vim named.conf
  1. Add the below line at the end of the file

include "/etc/bind/safesquid.dns.conf";

  1. Restart the bind9 service with the command given below.
/etc/init.d/bind9 restart
  • Starting domain name service... bind9

[ OK ]

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