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CentOS 7 Linux Server Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jonathan Hobson
Book Image

CentOS 7 Linux Server Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Jonathan Hobson

Overview of this book

This book will provide you with a comprehensive series of starting points that will give you direct access to the inner workings of the latest CentOS version 7 and help you trim the learning curve to master your server. You will begin with the installation and basic configuration of CentOS 7, followed by learning how to manage your system, services and software packages. You will then gain an understanding of how to administer the file system, secure access to your server and configure various resource sharing services such as file, printer and DHCP servers across your network. Further on, we cover advanced topics such as FTP services, building your own DNS server, running database servers, and providing mail and web services. Finally, you will get a deep understanding of SELinux and you will learn how to work with Docker operating-system virtualization and how to monitor your IT infrastructure with Nagios. By the end of this book, you will have a fair understanding of all the aspects of configuring, implementing and administering CentOS 7 Linux server and how to put it in control.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
CentOS 7 Linux Server Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Populating the domain


In this recipe, we will show you how you can quickly add new local domain record entries to your authoritative BIND server which are currently unknown to your nameserver.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you will require a working installation of the CentOS 7 operating system and a console-based text editor of your choice. It is expected that Unbound and BIND have both been installed and are already running, and that you have read and applied the zone recipes in this chapter and have prepared the required forward and reverse zone files for resolving hostnames of your private network.

How to do it...

If you want to add new domain names to the IP address mappings to your DNS server, for example for new or unknown hosts in your local network, you have two alternatives. Since we have already created zone files for our local network, we can simply add new A (and/or CNAME) and corresponding PTR entries for every new subdomain within our base domain name into our forward...