Atomia DNS RHEL 8 support

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This page describes the process of installing Atomia DNS and its components on new RHEL8 platform.

Overview

Atomia DNS consists of the following components:

  1. Atomia DNS Master server,
  2. Atomia DNS PowerDNS Nameserver and
  3. Atomia DNS Bind Nameserver (for slave zones).

Atomia DNS Master server

The Atomia DNS master server is the main API that contains all the master and slave zones but does not run on port 53. All data is served by the master, and the sync applications periodically pull the latest changes and provision them on PowerDNS or Bind nameservers. The end user communicates via DNS protocol on port 53 with PowerDNS or Bind nameservers.

Requirements

  • RedHat Enterprise 8, AlmaLinux 8 or other RHEL 8 compatible distro
  • EPEL repository
  • codeready-repo repository
  • PostgreSQL database (installed locally or remotely)

Installation

If you are performing a clean installation follow the steps below:

  1. Add the Atomia RPM repository:
                  wget http://rpm.atomia.com/rhel8/atomia-repository-setup-1.0-1.el8.noarch.rpm
                  rpm -i atomia-repository-setup-1.0-1.el8.noarch.rpm
            
  2. Prepare atomiadns.conf file by editing the /etc/atomiadns.conf file:
                db_name = zonedata
                db_hostname = 127.0.0.1
                db_username = atomiadns
                db_password = atomiadns123
                soap_uri = http://192.168.182.104/atomiadns
                soap_username = atomiadns
                soap_password = atomiadns123
            

    Make sure to change the soap_uri parameter to match your servers IP address or hostname, but keep /atomiadns in URI. Modify the db_password parameter to a desired one. During installation these parameters will be used to initialize the DB and other configurations.

  3. Make sure that postgresql database is running or reachable, depending on what you have set in the previous step.
    service postgresql status
  4. Perform the installation of AtomiaDNS master server:
    yum install atomiadns-masterserver
  5. Optionally you should install atomiadns-client on the same server for easier administration:
    yum install atomiadns-client

Troubleshooting

  1. HTTPd is not able to access the PostgreSQL database due to SELinux policy:
    setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect_db 1
  2. Access to the database is not working as expected (denied):
    1. Make sure that your postgresql database is configured to allow access via TCP protocol and authenticated via md5. Edit the file /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf and replace:
      host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            ident

      with:

      host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            md5
    2. Restart postgresql service:
      service postgresql restart

Atomia DNS PowerDNS Nameserver

AtomiaDNS PowerDNS sync is a package that synchronises AtomiaDNS master server database with PowerDNS database.

Requirements

  • RedHat Enterprise 8, AlmaLinux 8 or other RHEL 8 compatible distro
  • EPEL repository
  • codeready-repo repository
  • database (e.g. mysql or mariadb database)
    yum install mysql-server

    or

    yum install mariadb-server
  • PDNS server package
    yum install pdns
  • PDNS backend
    yum install pdns-backend-mysql

Installation

  1. Add the Atomia RPM repository:
                  wget http://rpm.atomia.com/rhel8/atomia-repository-setup-1.0-1.el8.noarch.rpm
                  rpm -i atomia-repository-setup-1.0-1.el8.noarch.rpm
            
  2. Perform the installation of AtomiaDNS powerdns sync application:
    yum install atomiadns-powerdnssync
  3. Connect to the database to add schema and user:
                      CREATE DATABASE powerdns;
                      CREATE USER 'powerdns'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'atomiadns123';
                      GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON powerdns.* TO 'powerdns'@'localhost';
                      FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
                
  4. Import tables to the database:
    mysql -u root powerdns < /usr/share/atomia/powerdns.sql
  5. Create and set atomiadns.conf file:
    touch /etc/atomiadns.conf
                      powerdns_db_database = powerdns
                      powerdns_db_hostname = localhost
                      powerdns_db_username = powerdns
                      powerdns_db_password = atomiadns123
                      servername = powerdns_server
                      soap_uri = http://192.168.182.104/atomiadns
                      soap_username = atomiadns
                      soap_password = atomiadns123
                

    You should make sure that servername is the same as one of the nameservers that are set in AtomiaDNS masterserver database. AtomiaDNS masterserver should, also, have nameserver groups set up correctly.

  6. Start the service:
    service atomiadns-powerdnssync start

Troubleshooting

  1. dig command doesn’t return the answer section:
    1. Is pdns service running?
    2. Did you configure pdns to use mysql as backend in /etc/pdns/pdns.conf?
                                launch+=gmysql
                                gmysql-host=localhost
                                gmysql-port=3306
                                gmysql-dbname=powerdns
                                gmysql-user=powerdns
                                gmysql-password=atomiadns123
                                gmysql-dnssec=yes
                          

Atomia DNS Bind Nameserver

AtomiaDNS Bind sync is a package that synchronises zone data between AtomiaDNS master server and a bind server. Currently the bind sync supports only Slave zone synchronization, no master zones can be synchronized.

Requirements

  • RedHat Enterprise 8, AlmaLinux 8 or other RHEL 8 compatible distro.
  • EPEL repository
  • codeready-repo repository
  • If you use DNSSEC, you need to install package bind-utils

Installation

  1. Add the Atomia RPM repository:
                      wget http://rpm.atomia.com/rhel8/atomia-repository-setup-1.0-1.el8.noarch.rpm
                      rpm -i atomia-repository-setup-1.0-1.el8.noarch.rpm
                
  2. Create atomiadns.conf configuration file:
                  soap_uri = http://192.168.182.104/atomiadns
                  soap_username = atomiadns
                  soap_password = atomiadns123
                  servername = vagrant_nameserver
            

    You should make sure that servername is the same as one of the nameservers that are set in AtomiaDNS masterserver database. AtomiaDNS masterserver should, also, have nameserver groups set up correctly.

  3. Install the package:
    yum install atomiadns-bindsync
  4. Restart the bind service:
    service named restart
  5. Start the service:
    service atomiadns-bindsync start

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