[CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

[Tomasz Napierała]

On Thursday 02 August 2007 16:56:46 Ray Leventhal wrote:

> As it will be a production server and this is my first foray into
> CentOS/SELinux in a production environment I was hoping to get a
> recommended list of what to include and, more specifically, what *not*
> to include from the distro CDs
>
> I will be doing a text based install, hoping to avoid the installation
> of X.  Other than BIND and vsftpd, I don't think I need much.  This
> machine will be pulling zone files from my primary web server and
> storing some archive files and backups for me.
>
> I'm dilligently R`ingTFMs, and will continue to.... I'd sure be
> appreciative of any jumpstart help and/or any pitfalls of which to be
> cognizant.
>


Apart from installation, I would suggest using PowerDNS as a secondary DNS. 
It's not only robust, fast and secure, but also has very interesting 
capability of automated zones depolying (espacially usefull for secondary 
NS). I'm using it on all my secondary nameservers, and that's saving me lot 
of time.

Regards,
-- 
Tomasz Napierala
System Administrator
Allegro Team
http://www.allegro.pl/