Installation of djbdns on Debian 8

For this tutorial we will configure a server, with the ip address 192.168.0.1, that is responsible for the xpto.com domain.  

Steps

DJBDNS is not available on debian repositories, therefore we will install it from sources. We will install some dependecies to support the execution of the service. Install the following packages:

apt-get install make gcc
apt-get install daemontools
apt-get install daemontools-run
apt-get install ucspi-tcp

After, download the djbdns source:

wget http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/djbdns-1.05.tar.gz

Compile and Install it:

gunzip djbdns-1.05.tar.gz
tar -xf djbdns-1.05.tar
cd djbdns-1.05 

echo gcc -O2 -include /usr/include/errno.h > conf-cc
make

make setup check

Then we will create two users to execute the tinydns and dnslog service:

adduser --no-create-home --disabled-login --shell /bin/false dnslog
adduser --no-create-home --disabled-login --shell /bin/false tinydns

To initialize the service, execute:

tinydns-conf tinydns dnslog /etc/tinydns/ 192.168.0.1

Configure service  to start on boot with daemontools:

update-service --add /etc/tinydns

Configure base nameserver for domain

cd /etc/tinydns/root
./add-ns xpto.com 192.168.0.1
./add-ns 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa 192.168.0.1
make

Example of adding an host and alias. We will add the entry lion.xpto.com to resolve to the ip 192.168.0.2, and two alias: the www and blog.

cd /etc/tinydns/root
./add-host lion.xpto.com 192.168.0.2
./add-alias www.xpto.com 192.168.0.2
./add-alias blog.xpto.com 192.168.0.2
make

The services can be restated by using systemctl to restart all daemontools services.

DJBNS can also be configured with the services for caching.

References

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-server.html

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/install.html

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1630044

https://www.howtoforge.com/install-djbdns-nameserver-on-debian-etch#-installing-djbdns

http://www.itworld.com/article/2785826/open-source-tools/installing-the-djbdns-software.html