The BIND Module

The BIND module opens to a screen with two sections. The upper portion of the page, is devoted to global BIND options, such as other DNS servers, logging, access control, and more. The lower portion of the display provides a number of icons, one for each of the zones your BIND is responsible for. This will include all Master, Slave, Forward, and Stub zones.

Figure 8-1. The BIND start page

Configuring your BIND server is an area where Webmin can really make things simpler. Even though DNS is a very simple service on the surface, the BIND configuration files are notoriously confusing and it is very easy to make a mistake that will render your nameserver useless. That's not to say you can't misconfigure your name server with Webmin, but it does make it a lot easier to generate a syntactically correct BIND configuration.