NSD is an authoritative-only DNS server. The following page shows how to setup a single-zone configuration. In the examples 10.1.0.1 is used as the server's IP. The IP addresses used here (along with the domain) should be replaced with the proper IP addresses of your servers.

Install

Installation is simple (perform this step on both servers):

apk add nsd

Configure

First, setup the main configuration file on the master server, /etc/nsd/nsd.conf, replacing the secret with a proper one:

server:
        ip-address: 10.1.0.1
        port: 53
        server-count: 1
        ip4-only: yes
        hide-version: yes
        identity: ""
        zonesdir: "/etc/nsd"
key:
        name: "sec_key"
        algorithm: hmac-md5
        secret: "WhateverSecretYouUse"
zone:
        name: alpinelinux.org
        zonefile: alpinelinux.org.zone

Then, create the zone file for the zone in question (/etc/nsd/alpinelinux.org.zone in this case):


;## alpinelinux.org authoritative zone

$ORIGIN alpinelinux.org.
$TTL 86400

@ IN SOA ns1.alpinelinux.org. webmaster.alpinelinux.org. (
                2011100501      ; serial
                28800           ; refresh
                7200            ; retry
                86400           ; expire
                86400           ; min TTL
                )

                NS              ns1.alpinelinux.org.
                MX      10      mail.alpinelinux.org.
lists           MX      10      mail.alpinelinux.org.
@               IN      A       81.175.82.11
mail            IN      A       64.56.207.219
www             IN      A       81.175.82.11
www-prd         IN      A       74.117.189.132
www-qa          IN      A       74.117.189.131
wiki            IN      A       74.117.189.132
lists           IN      A       64.56.207.219
monitor         IN      A       213.234.126.133
bugs            IN      A       81.175.82.11
nl              IN      A       81.175.82.11
dl-2            IN      A       208.74.141.33
dl-3            IN      A       74.117.189.132
dl-4            IN      A       64.56.207.216
rsync           IN      A       81.175.82.11
distfiles       IN      A       91.220.88.29
build-edge      IN      A       91.220.88.23
build64-edge    IN      A       204.152.221.26
build-2-2       IN      A       91.220.88.34
build64-2-2     IN      A       91.220.88.35
build-2-1       IN      A       91.220.88.32
build-2-0       IN      A       91.220.88.31
build-1-10      IN      A       91.220.88.26

Start Server

First step, make sure you didn't have any typos in your configuration:

nsd-checkconf /etc/nsd/nsd.conf

Then each time a change is made to the zone (including when you first start the server), you need to rebuild the NSD zone databases:

nsdc rebuild

Finally, start the server and set it to auto-start:

/etc/init.d/nsd start rc-update add nsd