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Please see our longer article for a fuller explanation of reverse DNS and what it’s for.

You must already have set up your forward DNS records to enable this feature.

This article is intended as a practical introduction to DNS, and assumes you are familiar only with networking basics. After a brief explanation of how DNS works, the bulk of this tutorial will explain DNS configuration, security, and common problems, in order to get you up and running quickly, safely, and reliably.

This article is purely how to configure a single VPS with the BIND DNS server using Webmin. This is adequate enough for simple websites where resilience is not essential. All the configuration settings mentioned here can be accomplished manually by editing various text files. Webmin simplifies this setup with it's graphical user interface and is less prone to typographical errors that can render your DNS server incapable.