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Topic 109 · Networking Fundamentals

109.4 Configure client side DNS

Step 1 of 9 · weight 2

Client side only

Weight 2. This objective configures how a host asks for names. BIND and named stay out of scope. Most of the files were already seen in earlier lessons; this map ties them together.

Troubleshooting the path stayed in 109.3. Writing the host and the resolver files started in 109.2. Here the question is name to address on the client
Exam files and tools: /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf, host, dig, getent. systemd-resolved is awareness only
TXT, CNAME, and SOA sit outside LPIC-1. Authoritative zone work is server side

Exam note

If the question says client side, do not start a DNS server. Start with how this host resolves a name.