In this post we are going to to go over how to install and configure the DNS capability in our Linux server. A DNS server translate IP addresses into hostnames. When you type in google.com in the backend it actually maps to an IP address on the internet. Therefore DNS is at the heart of the internet but you don't know that you are using it.
Here are the steps to configuring a DNS server on a Linux server:
Before you do anything get the name of you network adaptor and the IP address for it, my network adapter is enp0s3 and my IP address is 192.168.0.14. Yours will be different
You also want to know the hostname of the server for the configuration, you can find out what the hostname is by typing hostname