DNS: Create a chroot Jail

Isolating BIND in a chroot jail is common practice. It prevents any malicious user, who happens to gain access to the system by exploiting a BIND vulnerability, from further exploiting the system. In this lab, we’ll practice setting up a jail for BIND.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Set up the chroot Jail for the BIND Service

In CentOS all we need to do is run yum install bind-chroot -y, and then ensure that the normal BIND service isn’t set to run:

systemctl stop named
systemctl disable named
systemctl enable named-chroot

Add the Forward Zone Configuration to the /etc/named.conf File, Then Run the named-checkconf Command to Verify the Configuration

 # vim /etc/named.conf

Insert the zone configuration just before the include statements at the bottom of the file:

 zone "mylabserver.com" {
    type master;
    file "/var/named/chroot-zone.db";
 };

Then run the named-checkconf command to verify the configuration:

 # named-checkconf

Create the Forward Zone File and Check the Configuration for Syntax Errors with named-checkzone

Create the forward zone file:
```
vim /var/named/chroot-zone.db
```

Enter the following:

$TTL    86400
@       IN      SOA     nameserver.mylabserver.com. root.mylabserver.com. (
                          10030         ; Serial
                           3600         ; Refresh
                           1800         ; Retry
                         604800         ; Expiry
                          86400         ; Minimum TTL
)
; Name Server
@        IN      NS       nameserver.mylabserver.com.
; A Record Definitions
nameserver       IN      A       172.31.18.93
mailprod         IN      A       172.31.18.30
mailbackup       IN      A       172.31.18.72
; Canonical Name/Alias
dns        IN    CNAME    nameserver.mylabserver.com.
; Mail Exchange Records
@        IN    MX    10    mailprod.mylabserver.com.
@        IN    MX    20    mailbackup.mylabserver.com.

Save the document with :wq!.
Run the named-checkzone command to check the zone file for syntax errors:
```
named-checkzone mylabserver.com /var/named/chroot-zone.db
```

Change the File Permissions and the Group Owner for /var/named/fwd.mylabserver.com.db

Change the file permissions for /var/named/chroot-zone.db:
```
chmod 760 /var/named/chroot-zone.db
```
Change the group owner of the file to named:
```
chgrp named /var/named/chroot-zone.db
```

Start the Newly Configured named-chroot Service

systemctl start named-chroot

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DNS: Create a chroot Jail

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