Configuring bind in linux Mint

[ArisVer]

Anyone knows how to add DNS servers with bind9 in Mint?

Some pages I visited talk about configuring named.conf which I did, but the service failed to restart.

Also I am trying to find out how you add ipv6 DNS servers and I get nothing useful in search results.

 

[Ken g6]

I'm not technically on Mint, but it should be as simple as:

1. Edit network connections
2. Find your connection, and Edit it.
3. Click the ipv4 or ipv6 settings.
4. Enter your DNS servers in "Additional DNS Servers", comma-separated.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Bind is a little odd, since it runs in a chroot, so any file you configure is actually going to be in /var/named/chroot/var/named and not just /var/named. When anything refers to /etc/named.conf it's actually /var/named/chroot/etc/.

 

[ArisVer]

Fixed. I have mistaken named.conf with named.conf.options. Introduced 2 entries for ipv4 and for ipv6 it has 'any' entries.

 

[AMDisTheBEST]

I'm not technically on Mint, but it should be as simple as:

1. Edit network connections
2. Find your connection, and Edit it.
3. Click the ipv4 or ipv6 settings.
4. Enter your DNS servers in "Additional DNS Servers", comma-separated.

this is like me saying building a nuclear missile is as easy as getting uranium, build a nuclear reactor, build a rocket, build an accurate gps guidance system and all done.

 

[mv2devnull]

Anyone knows how to add DNS servers with bind9 in Mint?

Slightly confusing.

The bind9 IS-A DNS server. What is "add with" in this context? I'd guess relay/cache/forwarding (or whatever it is called),
i.e. Whom does the DNS server call (or direct its clients), if it does not know the answer to questions?

Then there is a followup question: Is the bind9 necessary, or would something "simpler" (such as 'dnsmasq') fulfill the needs?


Note: RHEL version of bind9 does not explicitly have file named.conf.options, but it does support/promote/require splitting the config into multiple files.
Furthermore, the RHEL version does use bind-mount to show named-files in both under / and in chroot. (RHEL-5 did use symlinks, not bind-mounts.)