Bind Operations - Set Up DNS Client

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Internal

Overview

The "DNS Client" consists of a set of library calls that are configured as described below.

Configuration

Services

There are no services that need to be started.

Configuration Files

/etc/resolv.conf

/etc/resolv.conf specifies the configuration of the DNS resolver. However, in some cases its content it is overwritten by network initialization scripts/NetworkManager.

Details on how to configure the DNS server, including the case of NetworkManager are available here:

/etc/resolv.conf

/etc/nsswitch.conf

/etc/nsswitch.conf

Test

Test with dig or nslookup.