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Playing with Bind9 DNS server

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How to run bind9 locally

The only changed from the great guide above was the Docker network setting:

sudo docker network create --subnet=10.10.0.0/16 bind9dns-net

And the subsequent commands to use the different network:

sudo docker run -d --rm --name=dns-server --net=bind9dns-net --ip=10.10.0.2 bind9 
sudo docker run -d --rm --name=host1 --net=bind9dns-net --ip=10.10.0.3 --dns=10.10.0.2 ubuntu:bionic /bin/bash -c "while :; do sleep 10; done"
sudo docker run -d --rm --name=host2 --net=bind9dns-net --ip=10.10.0.4 --dns=10.10.0.2 ubuntu:bionic /bin/bash -c "while :; do sleep 10; done"

Network tools

The image we are using is missing ping and dns tools, so use the commands below to install them:

apt install iputils-ping
apt install dnsutils

Testing

Use the host1 and host2 containers to test DNS settings by attaching to the container:

docker exec -it host1 bash

From a host we can test the following command to validate the DNS settings:

host -l astra.datastax.com
dig IP
dig hostname

And we can validate the settings of a host machine via /etc/nsswitch.com file