I used to use Bind as dns server. The server itself is not for complex task such master or slave dns server. Only for authoritative and local dns cache (optional). As I love copy and paste I often post my experience here at least for my future reference in case I have problem.

Today, my copy and paste method in Centos server (running 5.10) not work anymore. Googling around don’t help either. So I choose other dns software that work for my case. Tinydns is my other choice but I think its time to try something new and I found marands.

Installation process is straightforward and working well, here’s the steps :

 

# yum install gcc

# gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure –prefix=/usr –mandir=/usr/share/man –infodir=/usr/share/info –enable-shared –enable-threads=posix –enable-checking=release –with-system-zlib –enable-__cxa_atexit –disable-libunwind-exceptions –enable-libgcj-multifile –enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada –enable-java-awt=gtk –disable-dssi –disable-plugin –with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre –with-cpu=generic –host=x86_64-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)

Downloaad latest marands (at the time of writing its 2.0.09)

# wget -c http://maradns.samiam.org/download/2.0/2.0.09/maradns-2.0.09.tar.bz2

# tar xvjf maradns-2.0.09.tar.bz2

# cd maradns-2.0.09
# make
# make install
VERSION=2.0.09 ./build/install.sh
Installing MaraDNS, placing programs in /usr/local//bin/ and /usr/local//sbin/,
man pages in /usr/local//share/man/man1, /usr/local//share/man/man5,
and /usr/local//share/man/man8, and documents in /usr/local//doc/maradns-2.0.09
Adding MaraDNS startup scripts
Starting up MaraDNS at runlevel 3
starting up MaraDNS at runlevel 5

# service maradns start

# chkconfig maradns on

Edit mararc to change bind address, I use 192.168.1.100 as lan address.

# nano /etc/mararc
looking for ipv4_bind_address line and change it into :

ipv4_bind_addresses = “192.168.1.100, 127.0.0.1”

save.

Edit content of zone (db.example.net)

# nano /etc/maradns/db.example.net

Use this lines :

test.example.net.      +14400    soa    ns1.example.net. [email protected]. 2012010117 14400 3600 604800 14400 ~
example.net.      +14400    ns     ns1.example.net. ~
example.net.      +14400    ns     ns2.example.net. ~
ns1.example.net.  +14400    a      192.168.1.100 ~
ns2.example.net.  +14400    a      192.168.1.100 ~
example.net.      +14400    a      127.0.0.1 ~
www.example.net.  +14400    a      127.0.0.1 ~
example.net.      +14400    mx     10 mail.example.net. ~
test.example.net. +14400    a      192.168.1.100 ~

Save.

restart maradns service

# service maradns restart

dig test ::

Try query dns from other computer that exist on lan.

# dig @192.168.1.100 test.example.net

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-20.P1.el5_8.6 <<>> @192.168.1.100 test.example.net
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19886
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;test.example.net.        IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
test.example.net.    14400    IN    A    192.168.1.100

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.100#53(192.168.1.100)
;; WHEN: Fri Sep 26 19:41:51 2014
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 53

ok.

The rest is change /etc/resolv.conf and add 192.168.1.100 as nameserver.

In case of blocked port 53 :

# iptables -I INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
# service iptables save
# service iptables restart