Nt1330 Unit 4 Lab 1

Lab 4 Report: BIND
Mohammad Falah HET306 Report Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia [e-mail]

I.INTRODUCTION
This is the 4th Unix lab, BIND is the DNS server application that will be implemented on the rule host. It acts as a DNS server and gains access to the Swinburne DNS servers.

and the TCP protocol is used when the responses and the zone transfers.

III.A discussion on the use of the DNS client tools (e.g. Nslookup)
The DNS also uses some client tools which perform multiple tasks such as testing the DNS server, one of those tools is the NSLOOKUP tool which send queries to the DNS to request mapping for an IP or a Domain name. Nslookup uses the DNS resolver system which is stored on the (resolv.conf) file on the Operating system. Other client tools that are used are applications such as “web browsers” and “email…show more content…
Our rule host can handle Nslookup queries and resolve IP addresses and act exactly like a DNS server.

References:
[1] DNS on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain _Name_System#Authoritative_name _server ( accessed April 2012 ). [2] Nslookup on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nslooku p ( accessed April 2012 ). [3] Hakuna Matata Blog, http://theos.in/desktop-linux/resolveconf-linux-example/ ( accessed April 2012 ). [4] The Computer Technology Documentation Project, http://www.comptechdoc.org/indepe ndent/networking/guide/netdns.html ( accessed April 2012 ). [5] FreeBSD handbook, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.I SO8859-1/books/handbook/networkdns.html ( accessed April 2012 ).

VI. An overview of what you achieved in this lab.
In this lab, we configured the Rule host so it can act as a Domain Name Server (DNS) using the BIND. We created DNS database files to handle the DNS records and resolve the record names to their corresponding IP addresses. Our rule servers can also use the Swinburne DNS server’s which are connected to