Learning about the DNS and why you need to know about it
DNS is important to learn about as it simplifies how we find addresses of networked devices on the world wide web. Without the DNS to allow FQDNs to translate into IP addresses, we would all have to search for websites via IP. This would become confusing as there are so many websites we use today that remembering all the IP addresses for them would be hectic and unmanageable. This would inevitably lead to a database that you would have to look at each time you wanted to go to a website. Thus, the DNS was born, and it provides that function allowing you to remember friendly names of websites in order to access them, such as google.com.
Setting up DNS server configuration manually to provide DNS services
The first thing we will need to do is install the bind package for the DNS to be able to run. This allows for the daemon needed to serve the DNS entries to the systems. We will start by using sudo dnf install bind -y, with...
