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LPI Linux Certification/Configure client side DNS
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Detailed Objectives
(LPIC-1 Version 5.0)
Weight: 2
Description: Candidates should be able to configure DNS on a client host.
Key Knowledge Areas:
Query remote DNS servers.
Configure local name resolution and use remote DNS servers.
Modify the order in which name resolution is done.
Debug errors related to name resolution.
Awareness of systemd-resolved.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
/etc/hosts
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/nsswitch.conf
host
dig
getent