Install and configure Bind DNS Caching Server on Red Hat (CentOS) Distributions

[edit] Install and configure Bind DNS Caching Server on Red Hat (CentOS) Distributions

This will assume you already have Red Hat or one of it's variants install and configured.

Install Bind

yum install bind - or up2date -i bind on Red Hat

Configure Bind on system startup

chkconfig --level 2345 named on

Open ports on firewall

vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables

add the line -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT

Start Bind (and restart iptables)