I’m big fan of djbdns for its simplicity. After one of our server must change to vmware server and ubuntu chosen as main OS I still want to use djbdns for handling domain resolution.

Searching on internet guide for installing djbdns on ubuntu give me to this link. I try to follow it and it works 🙂

The different only for dnscache ip. I prefer to use lan ip for dnscache.

Here’s the adaptation of the guide :

Preparation :

apt-get install build-essential
add debian etch repository in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free

apt-get update

Install packages :

Install ucspi-tcp-src:
apt-get install ucspi-tcp-src
build-ucspi-tcp
Install daemontools
apt-get install daemontools-installer
build-daemontools

n -s /etc/inittab{new} /etc/inittab

Install DJBDNS
apt-get install djbdns-installer
build-djbdns

Configuration :

Add user :
adduser –no-create-home –disabled-login -shell /bin/false dnscache
adduser –no-create-home –disabled-login -shell /bin/false dnslog
adduser –no-create-home –disabled-login -shell /bin/false tinydns

Configure dnscache:
mkdir /var/lib/svscan
dnscache-conf dnscache dnslog /var/lib/svscan/dnscache 172.88.1.13
ln -sf /var/lib/svscan/dnscache /service

Configure tinydns:
tinydns-conf tinydns dnslog /var/lib/svscan/tinydns 127.0.0.1
ln -sf /var/lib/svscan/tinydns /service

Edit /etc/resolv.conf
search home.rasyid.net
nameserver 172.88.1.13

INIT section :

touch /etc/event.d/svscan

Fill these lines ::

start on runlevel 2
start on runlevel 3
start on runlevel 4
start on runlevel 5
stop on shutdown
respawn
exec /usr/bin/svscanboot

Restart DNS service.
/etc/init.d/djbdns restart

Checking log :