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By far the easiest way to manage BIND is via [[webmin]], where it's all GUI click and drop-down menus. But you should at the very least know how to manage it via command line for systems that you cannot set up [[webmin]] on for whatever reason or for those times when webmin fails.
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By far the easiest way to manage BIND is via [[webmin]], where it's all GUI click and drop-down menus (see image below). But you should at the very least know how to manage it via command line for systems that you cannot set up [[webmin]] on for whatever reason or for those times when webmin fails.
  
 
To add records to a zone, you'll need to find that zone's file, edit it to include the record, '''increase your SOA number''' and reload your server with
 
To add records to a zone, you'll need to find that zone's file, edit it to include the record, '''increase your SOA number''' and reload your server with
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[[http://www.bind9.net/manuals BIND9.net Manuals]]
 
[[http://www.bind9.net/manuals BIND9.net Manuals]]
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And here's a screenshot of Webmin's "Bind 9 Dynamic Server" module (which you'll have to install seperately from the webmin.com site; the basic webmin BIND module doesn't do views very well and was designed for BIND 8):
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http://images.penismightier.com/userfiles/Dave/bind9webmin.PNG
  
 
[[BIND]]
 
[[BIND]]

Revision as of 13:57, 3 October 2005

By far the easiest way to manage BIND is via webmin, where it's all GUI click and drop-down menus (see image below). But you should at the very least know how to manage it via command line for systems that you cannot set up webmin on for whatever reason or for those times when webmin fails.

To add records to a zone, you'll need to find that zone's file, edit it to include the record, increase your SOA number and reload your server with

rndc reload

If your server is a slave and you want it to retransfer the records from the master:

rndc retransfer

To check the status of your server:

rndc status

To stop your server:

rndc stop

To flush the DNS cache:

rndc flush

BIND can be a pain to manage properly, and not without reason are there thousands of pages on how to do it written.

[BIND9.net Manuals]


And here's a screenshot of Webmin's "Bind 9 Dynamic Server" module (which you'll have to install seperately from the webmin.com site; the basic webmin BIND module doesn't do views very well and was designed for BIND 8):

http://images.penismightier.com/userfiles/Dave/bind9webmin.PNG

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