My CentOS 5 Bind Installation Commands

if after doing the following and transferring my domains to the server, they will functions properly as far as BIND setup is concerned. This will also serve as installation instructions for others if you can verify that this is all good.

I have installed BIND9 and setup DNS with the following:
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yum install bind-chroot

chmod 755 /var/named/
chmod 775 /var/named/chroot/
chmod 775 /var/named/chroot/var/
chmod 775 /var/named/chroot/var/named/
chmod 775 /var/named/chroot/var/run/
chmod 777 /var/named/chroot/var/run/named/

chown -R named /var/named/chroot/etc

chown -R named /var/named/chroot/var

cd /var/named/chroot/var/named/

ln -s ../../ chroot

cp /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.3/sample/var/named/named.local /var/named/chroot/var/named/named.local

cp /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.3/sample/var/named/named.root /var/named/chroot/var/named/named.root

touch /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf

chkconfig --levels 235 named on

named.conf now contains:

Code:
options {
pid-file "/var/named/chroot/var/run/named/named.pid";
directory "/var/named/chroot/var/named";
query-source address * port 53;
allow-query { any; };
recursion no;
};

zone "server.mydomain.com" { type master; file "server.mydomain.com.db"; };
zone "mydomain.com" { type master; file "mydomain.com.db"; };
zone "mydomain.net" { type master; file "mydomain.net.db"; };
Upload named.conf to /var/named/chroot/etc

Modify /etc/resolv.conf to have the following before its current data:
search mydomain.com
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 78.129.143.155 // Replace this with the server's IP
// So below these there should be one or more nameserver $ip that point to the ISP's name servers so that the server can download stuff.

Modify /etc/host.conf to become the following:
order hosts,bind
multi on
nospoof on

Modify the files mydomain.com.db and mydomain.net.db and server.mydomain.com.db
to have the correct IP address. (These are DNS zone files that I'm sure are correct so I don't need you to confirm those.)
* Upload them to /var/named/chroot/var/named

/etc/init.d/named start