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Description: A Quick How to On Setting up a Master DNS and a Secondary
DNS servers. 
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Created: 05-14-07 ARF
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Master DNS Setup


This document steps through the process of setting up a Master dns server and a Secondary dns server to that master.

In a specific zone, create the directory /var/named.  In this directory the file named.conf file needs to be created.  

# mkdir /var/named
#touch /var/named/named.conf

Use a text editor to set up this file in the correct format.  The proper format is:

options {
	directory	"/var/named";
	allow-transfer { xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; };
	notify yes;
};

zone "DomainName.com" in {
	type master;
	file "ZoneFileName.zn";
};

zone "DomainName.com" in {
	type master;
	file "ZoneFileName.zn";
};

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After creating the named.conf file you need to make a link in /etc to it also named named.conf

# ln -s /var/named/named.conf /etc/named.conf

With this done and your zone files in the /var/named directory you can configure the service. To configure the dns, 
first make sure the service is available with svcs.

# svcs -a | grep dns
disabled         May_31   svc:/network/dns/client:default
online         Jun_02   svc:/network/dns/server:default

Then enable the service with svcadm

#svcadm enable svc:/network/dns/server:default

Now your master DNS should be working.

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