207.2 - Create and maintain DNS zones
Weight: 3
Description: Candidates should be able to create a zone file for a forward or reverse zone and hints for root level servers. This objective includes setting appropriate values for records, adding hosts in zones and adding zones to the DNS. A candidate should also be able to delegate zones to another DNS server.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- BIND 9 configuration files, terms and utilities
- Utilities to request information from the DNS server
- Layout, content and file location of the BIND zone files
- Various methods to add a new host in the zone files, including reverse zones
Terms and Utilities:
- /var/named/
- zone file syntax
- resource record formats
- named-checkzone
- named-compilezone
- masterfile-format
- dig
- nslookup
- host