This tutorial will be showing you how to set up a local DNS resolver on CentOS 8/RHEL 8, with the widely-used BIND9 DNS software. There are many synonyms for DNS resolver, some of which are listed below. They all refer to the same thing.
- full resolver (in contrast to stub resolver)
- DNS recursor
- recursive DNS server
- recursive resolver
Also, be aware that A DNS server can also called a name server. Examples of DNS resolver are 8.8.8.8 (Google public DNS server) and 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare public DNS server). The OS on your PC also has a resolver, although it’s called stub resolver due to its limited capability. A stub resolver is a small DNS client on the end user’s computer that receives DNS requests from applications such as Firefox and forwards requests to a recursive resolver. Almost every resolver can cache DNS response to improve performance, so they are also called caching DNS server.
Read full tutorial here: https://www.linuxbabe.com/redhat/bind-9-dns-resolver-centos-8
