Abstract
DNS stands for
“Domain Name System”. It allows you to specify a
machine by its name instead of its IP address. This wizard
allows you to setup a basic DNS server, master or slave.
Make sure you have a FQDN host name set for your system, otherwise the DNS wizard will refuse to start. Please refer to Section 1, “Network and Internet Connection Management”, for information on how to set the system's host name. You are given the option to run one of the following wizards:
Setup your machine as a plain DNS server. After selecting the network interface on which to listen for DNS requests, you can provide the address of an external DNS server to which the requests that the local server cannot answer will be forwarded. It is generally the address of your ISP's DNS server.
Then you can specify
domain names for lookups. For example if you request the IP of
a machine called kenobi
, the server appends
the domain names you add here to perform the request.
Setup your machine as the slave server of another, master, DNS server. Just supply the IP address of the master server for the slave to mirror. Then clients can be configured to query both servers: if the master fails, the slave takes over.
If your machine is a master DNS server, you'll be able to declare all the machines with static addresses on your network so that the DNS server can answer requests about them.
This is used to remove a DNS entry previously added with Add Host in DNS.