Installation of a Red Hat 9.0 server with DNS services, emphasising security

This paper seeks to provide an edited account of the work done by the author to create a minimal-install, primary DNS server based on a Linux platform. The document includes some discussion as to why certain decisions were made and the reasons for the method used to build the system. There is a preliminary summary of this document, which outlines the rest of the documents content. Each section, that details the instructions for building the system, has information and discussion about the actions and decisions taken that are relevant to that section. However, the document is also designed to be a set of build instructions that can be followed to create a simple DNS server with security as a focus.