First time installing TinyDNS as a service in a FreeBSD jail - how to do it?

mike_plumbs

I'm using FreeBSD 11.2 at the moment (likely to move to 12 in a while). I need a tiny authoritative-only DNS server (no lookup or caching needed, under 10 domains and under 10 queries/hr, almost no record changes). I'm likely to go with TinyDNS , part of djbdns , which is well reputed for security and also seems minimal and does what I need. Part of the reason for security is that it'll be exposed to the internet, although behind an IP/port...

Originally asked by Stilez on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

This is rather lenghty so the very short version for those who cannot be bothered to read it all: echo "testjail { }" >> /etc/jail.conf mkdir -p /usr/local/jails/testjail bsdinstall jail /usr/local/jails/testjail service jail start testjail pkg -j testjail install -y nginx sysrc -j testjail "nginx_enable"=YES service -j testjail nginx start I would typically rate this question as "too broad" and refer people directly to the FreeBSD Handbook . But I myself find that section to be rather poorly written and confusing. It is all there - but things are much easier than they seem! I just wish they focused more on the concepts rather than listing commands. And you might have fun reading Jails –...

Full answer by Claus Andersen: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/547971 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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