If you are looking for a recursive resolver, I would highly recommend unbound. If you are looking for an authoritative DNS server, I would highly recommend NSD. I run both and find both extremely easy to configure and maintain. Both are available from the EPEL repositories. I stopped using bind years ago and never looked back. On 04/11/2017 10:05 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed CentOS 7 on a public server. I'd like to setup BIND as > a primary DNS server for a few domains. > > Until now, all my public machines were running Slackware Linux, and > setting up BIND on a Slackware machine is relatively easy. In its out of > the box configuration, it has a bone-headed caching nameserver role, > which is quite easy to expand to a primary nameserver. Here's my > documentation. It's in French, but the *nix bits are universal. > > http://blog.microlinux.fr/bind-slackware/ > > On my server running CentOS, I notice things are more complicated in the > default configuration. The problem here is not so much documentation, > but more like the wealth of information on the subject of BIND on > CentOS, with often contradicting information. > > Is there a *reliable* more or less quick & dirty tutorial on how to get > BIND up and running as a primary public nameserver, with the default > configuration as a starting point? Think "recipe for pasta" and not > "degree in food chemistry". :o) > > Cheers, > > Niki >