You work as a Network Administrator for Tech Perfect Inc. The company has a Linux-based network. Users complain that they are unable to access resources on the network. However, there was no such problem the previous day. They are receiving the following error messages regularly:

Unable to resolve host name As your primary step for resolving the issue, which of the following services will you verify whether it is running or not?

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You work as a Network Administrator for Tech Perfect Inc. The company has a Linux-based network. Users complain that they are unable to access resources on the network. However, there was no such problem the previous day. They are receiving the following error messages regularly:

Unable to resolve host name As your primary step for resolving the issue, which of the following services will you verify whether it is running or not?

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B. BIND BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is the most widely deployed DNS server software on Linux, responsible for resolving hostnames to IP addresses. When users receive 'Unable to resolve host name' errors, the DNS resolution service is unavailable, and verifying that the BIND daemon is running is the correct first diagnostic step to restore name resolution on the network.

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A. APACHE APACHE is an HTTP web server daemon that handles web requests and plays no role in DNS hostname resolution.

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C. SAMBA SAMBA provides SMB/CIFS file and print sharing between Linux and Windows clients and is not responsible for DNS name resolution services.

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D. SQUID SQUID is a caching proxy server that forwards web traffic; it does not function as a DNS resolver or hostname resolution service.

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