Install DNS Server

[Mike Hoskins (michoski)]

While I mostly agree, simply doing a 'yum update' against the CentOS repos
will pull you up to 5.9...which isn't really old, it was released around
the same time as 6.4.  Then at least your base OS is up to date, and you
don't have to use the community RPMs.  You can build from source, generate
your own packages, or use community SRPMs that are available.


Newer is generally better, but depending upon what you're doing moving
from 5.x to 6.x (or changing major versions in general) is often not as
easy as it sounds.  I personally still have to maintain 5.x and 6.x to
keep our developers happy.  That said, running 5.x is still not an excuse
to be out of date.  Based on the question, this might just be lack of
experience...but moving to the latest minor release is very simple.

http://www.tecmint.com/how-to-upgrade-from-centos-5-x-to-centos-5-9/

http://www.howtoforge.com/bind-installation-on-centos

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/server/bind.html

http://www.five-ten-sg.com/mapper/bind

-----Original Message-----
From: <Lightner>, Jeff <JLightner at water.com>
Date: Thursday, October 10, 2013 7:26 AM
To: Sten Carlsen <stenc at s-carlsen.dk>, Chandran Manikandan
<tech2mani at gmail.com>
Cc: "bind-users at lists.isc.org" <bind-users at lists.isc.org>
Subject: RE: Install DNS Server

>Any reason why you¹re using CentOS 5.7 given that 6.4 (and maybe later)
>is available?
>
>if this is a new system you really ought to think about use the 6.x
>stuff.   5.x is long in the tooth even though still supported it has many
>older upstream packages of things including BIND.   CentOS does put bug
>and security fixes in (or RedHat does and CentOS
> gets them because they build from RHEL source) but you still end up with
>something very old (BIND 9.3.x) that most folks on this list don¹t want
>to talk about because it is long past EOL for BIND.
> 
>
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>From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org
> [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org] On Behalf
>Of 
>Sten Carlsen
>Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 6:38 AM
>To: Chandran Manikandan
>Cc: bind-users at lists.isc.org
>Subject: Re: Install DNS Server
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> 
>Hi
>
>I do that and more on an ATOM machine with 2GB RAM. I use Postfix instead
>of qmail but see no reason qmail would not work.
>
>I installed all the relevant RPMs, configured them and it works.
>
>One thing to remember is that you need two or more DNS servers, I do that
>by being a stealth master with several slaves on my 3rd party provider.
>
>
>On 10/10/13 12.27, Chandran Manikandan wrote:
>
>
>Hi All, 
>I am running Centos 5.7 32 bit server machine.
>
>I have installed and successfully run qmail,web,ftp with the same machine.
>
>Now am DNS hosting with third party. I would like to install and keep DNS
>hosting myself. 
>
>How to do that , How to install Dns server with the same machine or
>different machine as well what is the complete procedure and steps.
>
> 
>
>Any one help me.
>
> 
>
>-- 
>Thanks, 
>Manikandan.C
>
>System Administrator
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