The Posadis DNS server user documentation for Posadis 0.60.5 Tutorial and reference manual for Posadis Updated for Posadis 0.60.5 Meilof Veeningen <
[email protected]> Table of Contents Table of Contents.......................................................................................2 Part 1............................................................................................4 Do I need DNS?.........................................................................................5 The Domain Name System........................................................................6 The Authoritative DNS tree..................................................................6 A distributed system..............................................................................7 Caching..................................................................................................8 Forwarding............................................................................................9 So, what do I do next?...........................................................................9 Authoritative DNS servers..................................................................10 Reverse-mapping.................................................................................11 So, what way do I go now?.................................................................11 Installing your DNS server......................................................................12 Configuring Posadis............................................................................12