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Support #484

Installing BIND 9 on FreeBSD

Added by Daniel Curtis about 10 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Daniel Curtis

Category:

Domain Name Server

Target version:

FreeBSD 11

Start date:

11/29/2014

Due date:

% Done:

100%

Estimated time:

1.50 h

Spent time:

2.00 h

Description

A name server is one of the most critical servers on a network, it allows for the translation of host names into IP addresses; as well as a few other really neat functions. This is a guide for setting up a simple DNS server along with Webmin for graphical administration.

Install BIND:
```
pkg install bind912 bind-tools
```

Start and enable BIND at boot:
```
sysrc named_enable="YES" 
service named start
```
- NOTE: Since I am already running my DNS inside of a jail I need to disable automatic chrooting of BIND via the following command:
```
sysrc named_chrootdir="" 
```

GUI Frontend¶

Install Webmin
```
pkg install webmin
```

Enable Webmin at boot:

echo 'webmin_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf

Run the Webmin setup.sh script in order to setup the various config files:
```
/usr/local/lib/webmin/setup.sh
```

Log into the Webmin panel and go to Servers -> BIND DNS Server -> Edit Config File and change the listen-on parameter so the DNS server will listen on the network:
```
listen-on    { 192.168.16.66; };
```