Unbound Caching and NSD Local Authoritative Master Slave DNS Server – Part II

NSD – Authoritative DNS Server:

In Part I of our tutorial, Unbound is used as a caching DNS Server for clients on our LAN.  If any local DNS resolution is needed, Unbound is configured via it’s stub-zone to parse the query to an authoritative DNS Server, and in this case, it is NSD. Continue reading “Unbound Caching and NSD Local Authoritative Master Slave DNS Server – Part II”

Unbound Caching and NSD Local Authoritative Master Slave DNS Server – Part I

Unbound: Caching DNS Resolver

When FreeBSD 10 removed Bind from the base, a certain level of uneasiness and relief was felt in the FreeBSD Community.  Always fond of Bind, it was time to move on to an alternate without all the complexity, security issues, licensing and feature bloat of Bind.  For these and other reasons, Unbound was chosen as a caching DNS server and NSD for an authoritative DNS Server for local zones.  Additionally, redundancy is required since this is a production environment which requires uninterruptible DNS resolution. Our environment will consist of two physical servers both configured as follows: Continue reading “Unbound Caching and NSD Local Authoritative Master Slave DNS Server – Part I”