LPI BSD Specialist
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714.4 Configure Client Side DNS (weight: 2) BSD-SPECIALIST Practice Questions (Page 1)
Part of the Topic 714: Basic BSD Network Administration domain, which makes up ~17% of our current practice bank. Linux Professional Institute does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~6–10 in this domain), expect 2–3 from this objective — we provide 30 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Which configuration file on a BSD system is used to specify the DNS servers that the system will use for name resolution?
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A FreeBSD system is configured with `hosts: files dns` in `/etc/nsswitch.conf`. The `/etc/hosts` file contains an entry for `webserver 192.0.2.10`. A user runs `ping webserver` and gets a response from 192.0.2.10. Which source provided the answer?
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A FreeBSD server is configured with `nameserver 192.0.2.53` in `/etc/resolv.conf`. The admin runs `dig @192.0.2.53 example.com` and gets a response, but `ping example.com` fails with 'unknown host'. What is the most likely cause?
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What is the purpose of a reverse DNS lookup?
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An admin needs to find the authoritative name servers for the `example.org` domain. Which `dig` command provides this information?
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