And in the same way the reverse zone file also has the above things. The reverse zone file of master server that is 192.192.192.reverse may look like

@ IN SOA kshounish2.love.com. root@kshounish2.love.com. (

2000011301 ; serial

3600 ; refresh

900 ; retry

1209600 ; expire

43200 ; default_ttl

)

@ IN NS kshounish1.bigleap.com

1 IN PTR kshounish1.bigleap.com.

2 IN PTR kshounish2.bigleap.com.

3 IN PTR kshounish3.bigleap.com.

4 IN PTR kshounish4.bigleap.com.

5 IN PTR kshounish5.bigleap.com.

6 IN PTR kshounish6.bigleap.com.

7 IN PTR kshounish7.bigleap.com.

8 IN PTR kshounish8.bigleap.com.

9 IN PTR kshounish9.bigleap.com.

10 IN PTR kshounish10.bigleap.com.

Note: Because the network id is already determined by @ that is 192.192.192.reverse, 1. replaces the reverse.10.

So, once the master server zone file and master server reverse zone file is configured well, just start

#/etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart

Now our master server is configured. So, if any machine has its name server lookup as 192.192.192.1, we will be able to access it by a command called nslookup.

Slave server configuration

We want to configure a slave server as kshounish2.bigleap.com. of kshounish1.bigleap.com.

Slave Server setup: We go to dnsconf and configure secondaries option. It will ask for the master server. We write kshounish1.bigleap.com/ and save it

If your slave server has domain as bigleap.com. and whose master is kshounish1.bigleap.com, then the /etc/named.conf at slave server should look like:

#this is the macro which defines where will the DNS related file stay

options {

directory “/var/named”;

};

#the below line says about the root servers or cache servers

zone “.” {

type hint;

file “named.ca”;

};

# this particular option tells about the file which will keep hostname to ipaddress mapping got from master server

zone “bigleap.com.”{

type slave;

file “slave/bigleap.com.”;

masters { kshounish1.bigleap.com;};

};

# this particular option tells about the localhost file mapping

zone “0.0.127.in-addr.arpa”{

type master;

file “named.local”;

};

# this particular option tells about the file which will keep ippaddress to #hostname mapping

zone “192.192.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA”{

type slave;