Re: Install DNS Server

2013-10-10 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
While I mostly agree, simply doing a 'yum update' against the CentOS repos will pull you up to 5.9...which isn't really old, it was released around the same time as 6.4. Then at least your base OS is up to date, and you don't have to use the community RPMs. You can build from source, generate you

Re: Install DNS Server

2013-10-10 Thread David Newman
On 10/10/13 4:26 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote: > CentOS does put > bug and security fixes in (or RedHat does and CentOS gets them because > they build from RHEL source) but you still end up with something very > old (BIND 9.3.x) that most folks on this list don’t want to talk about > because it is lon

RE: Install DNS Server

2013-10-10 Thread Lightner, Jeff
Any reason why you’re using CentOS 5.7 given that 6.4 (and maybe later) is available? if this is a new system you really ought to think about use the 6.x stuff. 5.x is long in the tooth even though still supported it has many older upstream packages of things including BIND. CentOS does put

Re: Forwarding requests when DNS name doesn't exist?

2013-10-10 Thread Marc Lampo
An unwise decision, from security point of view ! You are about to open the DNS channel - public DNS resolving available for internal clients. Consequently data leakage, file transfer in/out over DNS become possible ... As far as the question about internal fake zones is concerned : if the name s

Re: Install DNS Server

2013-10-10 Thread Sten Carlsen
Hi I do that and more on an ATOM machine with 2GB RAM. I use Postfix instead of qmail but see no reason qmail would not work. I installed all the relevant RPMs, configured them and it works. One thing to remember is that you need two or more DNS servers, I do that by being a stealth master with

Install DNS Server

2013-10-10 Thread Chandran Manikandan
Hi All, I am running Centos 5.7 32 bit server machine. I have installed and successfully run qmail,web,ftp with the same machine. Now am DNS hosting with third party. I would like to install and keep DNS hosting myself. How to do that , How to install Dns server with the same machine or different m

Forwarding requests when DNS name doesn't exist?

2013-10-10 Thread Peter Olsson
(This is probably a silly question, but I want to explore every possibility.) We have a proxy firewall, with no contact between inside and outside. We have a fake internal DNS root for zones that we use internally. This works fine, since lookup of external names are only made from the outside of t