BIND9 is an open-source, flexible and full-featured DNS software widely used on Unix/Linux due to its stability and high quality performance.

The perfect solution for providing DNS resolution to your servers in Azure and clients on prem or in the cloud. This Ubuntu server also comes with Webmin GUI allowing you to manage your server via the servers web portal, making it easier to manage DNS via a GUI. You can also manage DNS via the SSH terminal.

BIND can act as an authoritative DNS server for a zone and a DNS resolver at the same time. A DNS resolver can also be called a recursive name server because it performs recursive lookups for local clients

DNS Server Features

• DNS Dynamic updates
• Create master zones, slave zone, stub zone, forward zones, delegation zone, zones from a batch file
• Create forwarders and transfers
• Create a cluster of DNS Servers
• Journal File
• Incremental zone transfers (IXFR)
• Split DNS
• TSIG (Transaction SIGnatures) is a mechanism for authenticating DNS messages
• TSIG-Based Access Control
• DNSSEC - Cryptographic authentication of DNS information is possible through the DNS Security (“DNSSEC-bis”) extensions
• Logging & error logging capabilities
• PKCS#11 (Cryptoki) support

DNS Server Setup / Support

Step by step guide can be found on our website - Setup DNS Server on Azure