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Creating forward lookup zones

Creating forward lookup zones - Linux Tutorial

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Creating forward lookup zones

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- Want your DNS server to convert names to IPS? Forward lookup zones are your new best friends. Stay tuned. - You're watching IT Pro TV. (Intro music plays) - Welcome back to LPIC-2. Today's topic is creating forward lookup zones, and this is new to me. So, Don, what are we going to be talking about today? - Well, in an earlier episode, we stood up a DNS server, but it's not going to do much good, unless it has records to serve up. And that's what we're going to set up today. We're going to learn about what forward lookup zones are. We'll see how to create them, how to populate them with information so that then our DNS server can actually start to resolve names to IPS, which is kind of the whole purpose of the software. So it's, it's an important topic. - Sounds like it. So when might we want to host our own forward lookup zone? - There there's any number of reasons for doing it. Usually it comes down to you…

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