[CentOS] Primary DNS server with BIND on a public machine running CentOS 7

[Robert Moskowitz]

I am writing my howto on BIND for Centos7.  Mine is running on 
Centos7-arm.  You can see some of the basics I have done at:

file:///home/rgm/data/htt/httnet/homepage/Centos7-armv7.html

I have a caveat I learned with dealing with SELinux and BIND there.

On 04/11/2017 01:05 PM, 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
>