MyDNS with MyDNSConfig Control Panel and DNSMasq on Ubuntu 6.10
Version 1.0
Author: Till Brehm <t.brehm [at] projektfarm [dot] com>
In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS and MyDNSConfig. MyDNS is a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or djbdns. The advantage is that MyDNS simply reads the records from the database, and it does not have to be restarted/reloaded when DNS records change or zones are created/edited/deleted. A secondary nameserver can be easily set up by installing a second instance of MyDNS that accesses the same database or, to be more redundant, uses the MySQL master / slave replication features to replicate the data to the secondary nameserver.
MyDNSConfig is an easy to use web-based interface to MyDNS. MyDNSConfig can create all types of DNS records that are available in MyDNS and adds features like user management and access privileges.
This setup uses Ubuntu 6.10, but it should work with Debain Etch, too.
Installing The Prerequisites
MyDNSConfig is a web-based interface to MyDNS written in PHP. This requires a webserver with PHP enabled and the MySQL database server. If you have already Apache, PHP and MySQL installed, you may skip this step.
Installing MySQL and Apache webserver:
apt-get install libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysqlclient15off libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl mysql-client mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server mysql-common apache2 phpmyadmin libapache2-mod-php5
Set the MySQL root password:
mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword
Replace yourrootsqlpassword with a password of your choice.
Installing MyDNSConfig
I will use the MyDNS package from the Ubuntu universe repository. Befor you go to the next steps, please make sure that the universe repository is enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list.
Log in to MySQL and create the database:
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE mydns;
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON mydns.* TO 'mydns'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'mydnspassword';
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON mydns.* TO 'mydns'@'localhost.localdomain' IDENTIFIED BY 'mydnspassword';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit;
Replace the word mydnspassword in the above commands with a password of your choice.
Download MyDNSConfig:
cd /tmp
wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mydnsconfig/MyDNSConfig-1.1.0.tar.gz
tar xvfz MyDNSConfig-1.1.0.tar.gz
cd MyDNSConfig-1.1.0
Install MyDNSConfig:
mkdir /usr/share/mydnsconfig
cp -rf interface/* /usr/share/mydnsconfig/
ln -s /usr/share/mydnsconfig/web/ /var/www/mydnsconfig
Install the MyDNSConfig SQL Database:
mysql -u root -p mydns < install/mydnsconfig.sql
The command above asks for a password, please enter the password of the MySQL root user.
Edit the MyDNSConfig configuration:
vi /usr/share/mydnsconfig/lib/config.inc.php
The file should look like this:
<?php
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ini_set('register_globals',0);
$conf["app_title"] = "MyDNSConfig";
$conf["app_version"] = "1.1.0";
$conf["rootpath"] = "/usr/share/mydnsconfig";
$conf["fs_div"] = "/"; // File system divider, \\ on windows and / on linux and unix
$conf["classpath"] = $conf["rootpath"].$conf["fs_div"]."lib".$conf["fs_div"]."classes";
$conf["temppath"] = $conf["rootpath"].$conf["fs_div"]."temp";
/*
Database Settings
*/
$conf["db_type"] = 'mysql';
$conf["db_host"] = 'localhost';
$conf["db_database"] = 'mydns';
$conf["db_user"] = 'mydns';
$conf["db_password"] = 'mydnspassword';
/*
External programs
*/
$conf["programs"]["wput"] = $conf["rootpath"]."/tools/wput/wput";
/*
Themes
*/
$conf["theme"] = 'grey';
$conf["html_content_encoding"] = 'text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
$conf["logo"] = 'themes/default/images/mydnsconfig_logo.gif';
/*
Default Language
*/
$conf["language"] = 'en';
/*
Auto Load Modules
*/
$conf["start_db"] = true;
$conf["start_session"] = true;
/*
DNS Settings
*/
$conf["auto_create_ptr"] = 1; // Automatically create PTR records?
$conf["default_ns"] = 'ns1.example.com.'; // must be set if $conf['auto_create_ptr'] is 1. Don't forget the trailing dot!
$conf["default_mbox"] = 'admin.example.com.'; // Admin email address. Must be set if $conf['auto_create_ptr'] is 1. Replace "@" with ".". Don't forget the trailing dot!
$conf["default_ttl"] = 86400;
$conf["default_refresh"] = 28800;
$conf["default_retry"] = 7200;
$conf["default_expire"] = 604800;
$conf["default_minimum_ttl"] = 86400;
?>
Afterwards, remove the MyDNSConfig installer from the /tmp directoy:
cd /tmp
rm -rf MyDNSConfig-1.1.0/
rm -f MyDNSConfig-1.1.0.tar.gz
Installing MyDNS
Now install the MyDNS package from Ubuntu. As we created a database named mydns already which contains all the tables needed for MyDNS, we can choose to not create the database in the following setup.
apt-get install mydns-mysql
-> localhost
-> mydns
-> no
-> mydns
-> mydnspassword
Modify the MyDNS configuration file so that MyDNS will listen also on TCP and allow zone transfers:
vi /etc/mydns.conf
allow-tcp = yes allow-axfr = yes
The basic installation of MyDNS and MyDNSConfig is now finished. To log in to the MyDNSConfig interface, open a web browser and enter enter the following URL:
http://<your_ip_address>/mydnsconfig/
Replace <your_ip_address> with the IP address of your server.
The default username and password of MyDNSConfig is:
Username: admin
Password: admin
Don't forget to change the password after login under System > Users.
Installing DNSMasq
MyDNS does not contain a DNS resolver that is able to resolve DNS records that MyDNS is not athoritive for. In the next step I will install and configure the DNS resolver and cache DNSMasq to act as a local DNS resolver and configure MyDNS to use DNSMasq to resolve external domains. If you don't want your server to resolve external domains, you can skip this part.
Create a DNS Resolver on IP 127.0.0.1:
apt-get install dnsmasq
This installs the dnsmasq Ubuntu package. Now we will have to edit the DNSMasq and MyDNS configuration files to ensure that both pacakges won't listen on the same port on all IP addresses.
vi /etc/dnsmasq.conf
listen-address=127.0.0.1 no-dhcp-interface= bind-interfaces
Now edit the mydns.conf file to configure MyDNS to not listen on 127.0.0.1:
vi /etc/mydns.conf
no-listen = 127.0.0.1 recursive = 127.0.0.1
Then edit /etc/resolv.conf:
vi /etc/resolv.conf
and add the following line as first line so that the DNSMasq DNS-Cache is used for all local DNS queries, too:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
