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- bind9dns
- Jonathan Haack
- Haack's Networking
- webmaster@haacksnetworking.org
bind9dns
This tutorial is for users of Debian GNU/Linux to set up an authoritative DNS server using bind9. An authoritative DNS server serves DNS records about other hosts … that is, you use an authoritative server to serve domain.com's A, AAAA, DMARC, SPF, etc., records. These records can then be queried by a recursive DNS resolver. Bind9 can also do recursion, however, it's far more commonly used as an authoritative DNS server. Unbound, on the other hand, is designed primarily for recursive DNS. If you are just looking to protect against leaks and guard DNS privacy, you should instead head over unbound-dns instead. In this tutorial, we will:
primarily focus on setting up the authoritative DNS server with bind9. In addition to configuring everything using the CLI, we will also demonstrate how we can add a hardened webmin interface to
— oemb1905 2025/12/26 17:58
