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It is very common for beginners to make mistakes when editing BIND configuration files. Be sure to avoid the following issues:
Take care to increment the serial number when editing a zone file.
data of that zone.
Be careful to use ellipses and semi-colons correctly in the /etc/named.conf file.
An omitted semi-colon or unclosed ellipse section will cause named to refuse to start.
Remember to place periods (.) in zone files after all FQDNs and omit them on hostnames.
A period at the end of a domain name denotes a fully qualified domain name. If the period is omitted, then named appends the name of the zone or the $ORIGIN value to complete it.
If a firewall is blocking connections from the named program to other nameservers, edit its configuration file.
named to use port 53 by adding the following line to the options statement of /etc/named.conf:
query-source address * port 53; |
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