Chapter 6. Domain Name Service (DNS)

Table of Contents

Installation
Configuration
Overview
Caching Nameserver
Primary Master
Secondary Master
Troubleshooting
Testing
Logging
References
Common Record Types
More Information

Domain Name Service (DNS) is an Internet service that maps IP addresses and fully qualified domain names (FQDN) to one another. In this way, DNS alleviates the need to remember IP addresses. Computers that run DNS are called name servers. Ubuntu ships with BIND (Berkley Internet Naming Daemon), the most common program used for maintaining a name server on Linux.