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Introduction

This section is geared towards authoritative DNS servers. For example, if you had the domain name domain.com, you might have these name servers:

ns1.domain.com
ns2.domain.com

This is called an authoritative-only name server.

Authoritative name server setup

Debian and BIND are currently documented. Others (such as OpenBSD and NSD) may be covered, in the future.

Debian (bind9)

Refer to debian-bind.md

Other name server daemons exist, but we will use bind.

DNS configuration

This section will cover how to configure domain names, once your name server software is up and running.

Bind (any distro)

Refer to zonefile-bind.md