Difference between revisions of "NAD710 Lab 5 Answers"
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<u>host:</u> A utility for performing DNS lookups, normally used to convert names to IP address and vice-versa. | <u>host:</u> A utility for performing DNS lookups, normally used to convert names to IP address and vice-versa. | ||
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<u>nsupdate:</u> A utility to update a DNS zone, adding or deleting any type of DNS record the name server supports. | <u>nsupdate:</u> A utility to update a DNS zone, adding or deleting any type of DNS record the name server supports. | ||
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6. What is the information provided by the "service named status" command? | 6. What is the information provided by the "service named status" command? | ||
| − | Name: | + | Name: Mohak Vyas |
Answer: | Answer: | ||
| + | version: 9.5.0-P2 | ||
| + | number of zones: 15 | ||
| + | debug level: 0 | ||
| + | xfers running: 0 | ||
| + | xfers deferred: 0 | ||
| + | soa queries in progress: 0 | ||
| + | query logging is OFF | ||
| + | recursive clients: 0/0/1000 | ||
| + | tcp clients: 0/100 | ||
| + | server is up and running | ||
| + | named (pid 13308) is running... | ||
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7. Will the "version" statement in the "/etc/named.conf" file change the output of the "service named status" command? | 7. Will the "version" statement in the "/etc/named.conf" file change the output of the "service named status" command? | ||
| − | Name: | + | Name: Mohak Vyas |
| − | Answer: | + | Answer: No, it still gives the version number but in version number is shows txt and chaos is disabled. |
| + | version: 9.5.0-P2 (version.bind/txt/ch disabled) | ||
Revision as of 13:57, 6 October 2008
Questions
1. What is the version number of the installed BIND package?
Name: Mohak Vyas
Answer: The version number of the installed BIND package is 9.5.0-P2. After starting the name server, when you give the command service named status, it prints the version number.
2. What is bind tool called "named-checkconf" use for?
Name: Nestor the Guy who Paste all the questions...
Answer: The bind tool "Named-checkconf" is to used for checking the syntax of a named configuration file. But it will not check semantics.
3. What is bind tool called "named-checkzone" use for?
Name: Mohak Vyas
Answer: The zone file should be checked for format consistency. Named-checkzone checks the syntax and integrity on the zone file.
4. What are the names of all the other tools in the bind package?
Name:
Answer:
5. We have used the dig and nslookup bind utilities in this lab, what are the other two bind utilities and what are they for?
Name: Mohak Vyas
Answer: The other two utilities are host and nsupdate.
host: A utility for performing DNS lookups, normally used to convert names to IP address and vice-versa.
nsupdate: A utility to update a DNS zone, adding or deleting any type of DNS record the name server supports.
6. What is the information provided by the "service named status" command?
Name: Mohak Vyas
Answer: version: 9.5.0-P2 number of zones: 15 debug level: 0 xfers running: 0 xfers deferred: 0 soa queries in progress: 0 query logging is OFF recursive clients: 0/0/1000 tcp clients: 0/100 server is up and running named (pid 13308) is running...
7. Will the "version" statement in the "/etc/named.conf" file change the output of the "service named status" command?
Name: Mohak Vyas
Answer: No, it still gives the version number but in version number is shows txt and chaos is disabled. version: 9.5.0-P2 (version.bind/txt/ch disabled)
8. The SOA resource record in a zone file contains 5 numbers, what is the usage of the last one?
Name:
Answer:
