How to Setup Bind (DNS Server) on Ubuntu 24.04

BIND or BIND 9 is an open source implementation of DNS, available for almost all Linux distributions. BIND stands Berkeley Internet Name Domain & it allows us to publish DNS information on internet as well as allows us to resolve DNS queries for the users. BIND is by far the most used DNS software on Internet.

DNS or Domain Name System, as we know is an internet service that is used to translate the user friendly domain into computer friendly IP addresses. Not only can we translate domain names to IP addresses, we can also perform reverse translation i.e. from IP addresses to domain name translations. In this post, we are going to learn to setup a private DNS server by implementing BIND 9 on Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 22.04. Steps are identical for these two Ubuntu versions.