Configuration With Yast - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007 Installation Manual

Forwarder
Forwarders are DNS servers to which your DNS server should send queries it
cannot answer.
Record
The record is information about name and IP address. Supported records and their
syntax are described in BIND documentation. Some special records are:
NS record
MX record
SOA record

33.2 Configuration with YaST

You can use the DNS module of YaST to configure a DNS server for your local network.
To configure a Samba server, start YaST and select Network Services > DNS Server.
When starting the module for the first time, a wizard starts, prompting you to make just
a few basic decisions concerning administration of the server. Completing this initial
setup produces a very basic server configuration that should be functioning in its essential
aspects. The expert mode can be used to deal with more advanced configuration tasks,
such as setting up ACLs, logging, TSIG keys, and other options.
33.2.1 Wizard Configuration
The wizard consists of three steps or dialogs. At the appropriate places in the dialogs,
you are given the opportunity to enter the expert configuration mode.
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(not expired) zone data. If the slave cannot obtain a new copy of the zone data,
it stops responding for the zone.
An NS record tells name servers which machines are in charge of a given do-
main zone.
The MX (mail exchange) records describe the machines to contact for directing
mail across the Internet.
SOA (Start of Authority) record is the first record in a zone file. The SOA
record is used when using DNS to synchronize data between multiple comput-
ers.