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Manually adding a DNS Zone to Bind9 server

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  • Create a Zone file in /etc/bind/  Example – /etc/bind/pri.domain.com
  • Add the entries . Example below 
    $TTL 3600
@ IN SOA ns2.dnserver.net. manish.gmail.com. (
2019051606 ; serial, todays date + todays serial #
7200 ; refresh, seconds
540 ; retry, seconds
604800 ; expire, seconds
3600 ) ; minimum, seconds
;

domain.com. 3600 A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
mail 3600 A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
www 3600 A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
domain.com. 3600 AAAA xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx
mail 3600 AAAA xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx
www 3600 AAAA xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx
domain.com. 3600 MX 10 mail.domain.net.
domain.com. 3600 NS ns1.dnserver.net.
domain.com. 3600 NS ns2.dnserver.net.
domain.com. 3600 TXT "v=spf1 mx a ~all"
default._domainkey.domain.com. 3600 TXT "v=DKIM1; t=s; p=......NBgkqhki................................................"
_dmarc.domain.com. 3600 TXT "v=DMARC1; p=quarantine"
  • Add the zone to /etc/bind/named.conf.local . Example below

    zone "domain.com" {
    type master;
    allow-transfer {none;};
    file "/etc/bind/pri.domain.com";
};
  • service bind9 restart for Ubuntu and likes. For CentOS and likes service named restart