Chroot Bind FreeBSD with Master/Slave June 4th, 2010
FreeBSD known as one of the most rock solid reliable and perfect operating systems, I personally lover of FreeBSD OS, so I want to publish a very nice howto about dns (Bind).
In this tutorial I’ll describe to you that how to set up secure FreeBSD based master/slave DNS server. You can use this tutorial on both 64-bit and 32-bit platforms.
We will use 192.168.0.1 as a Master Server and 192.168.0.2 as Slave Server
Installing and Configuring DNS:
FreeBSD 7.2 will be use for this tutorial. BIND is already installed in FreeBSD installation. You can check installed bind version using this link
1) Update your ports tree, I personally preferred portsnap for ports tree management. After updating ports tree check the version you have in the ports collection.
If ports version equal your existing installed bind version then we don’t need to installation new bind version otherwise we will install new version.
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