BloxOne Universal DDI provides the ability to set up and manage DNS architecture including DNS servers, zones, resource records, and zone transfers. You can configure a primary zone to store the master copy of the zone data. You can create a secondary zone that is a read-only copy of the primary zone stored on a different server. The secondary zone cannot process updates and can only retrieve updates from the primary zone. The secondary zone can answer DNS name resolution queries from client nodes, which helps reduce the workload on the primary zone. When you want to forward queries for data in a particular zone, define the zone as a forward zone and specify one or more DNS servers, a service instance, or an IP address that can resolve queries for the zone. You can create DNS resource records that provide information about objects and service instances. DNS servers use these records to respond to queries for service instances and objects. You can also configure zone transfers to transfer the zone files from the primary server to a secondary server.
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All the settings for DNS are stored in the Global DNS Configuration. When creating a DNS Config Profile (specific to a service instance), some settings are inherited from the Global DNS Configuration. Also, you can choose to Inherit or Override some settings from Global DNS Configuration. Configure the Global DNS Configuration from Manage - > DNS -> Global DNS Configuration page. For more information on how to configure the Global DNS Configuration, see Configuring Global DNS Properties.
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Create a DNS View. DNS zones are organized within a DNS View. Go to Manage -> DNS - > Zone. Click Create DNS View. For more information, see Configuring DNS Views.
Create a Primary Zone. A primary zone resides in a DNS view and stores a master copy of all the zone data. Go to Manage -> DNS -> Zone -> DNS View. Click Create -> Primary Zone. For more information, see Creating a Primary Zone.
Create a Forward Zone. A forward zone resides in a DNS view and resolves a hostname NIOS-X Server name to an IP address. Go to Manage -> DNS -> Zone -> DNS View. Click Create -> Forward Zone. For more information, see Creating a Forward Zone.
Create a Secondary Zone. A secondary zone resides in a DNS view and is a read-only copy of the primary zone. Go to Manage - > DNS -> Zone -> DNS View. Click Create - > Secondary Zone. For more information, see Creating a Secondary Zone.
Create a DNS Config Profile. A DNS Config Profile is specific to the service instance that is assigned to it. Settings for the DNS Config Profile are inherited from the Global DNS Configuration. The inherited settings can be overridden and custom values can be specified. Go to Manage -> DNS - > DNS Config Profiles. Click Create DNS Config Profile. Modify the DNS Config Profile to assign it to a service instance. For more information, see Configuring DNS Config Profiles.
Create a DNS Server Group. An authoritative DNS server group is a collection of primary DNS servers and secondary DNS servers. After you create an authoritative DNS server group, you can then assign it to serve authoritative forward-mapping and reverse-mapping zones. Go to Manage -> DNS -> DNS Server Groups. Click Create -> Authoritative DNS Server Group. For more information, see Creating Authoritative DNS Server Groups.
Create Resource Records. Resource records are entries in DNS zone files. Go to Manage -> DNS -> Zone - > DNS View. Go to the newly created Primary Zone, Secondary Zone, or Forward Zone. Click Create -> Record. For more information, see Configuring Resource Records.
Configure DNS Servers. You can configure an existing service instance as a DNS server. Go to Manage -> DNS -> DNS Servers. For more information, see Configuring DNS Servers.