[Newbie] Making a caching-only bind9 manage a local zone?!

[Simon Hobson]

Thore Schmechtig wrote:

>I have a small home network with 3 clients and one linux server (SuSE
>8.1 pro, IP Masquerading + caching-only bind9) that connects the
>clients to the net. I use a dialup DSL connection, named.conf is
>dynamically modified by smpppd. I have been running bind9 with the
>preconfigured caching-only config without problems for several months
>now.
>Now I want to add zone files for my own zone, but bind just won't find
>the data in there. I have checked out the DNS howto in tldp.org, I
>cannot find any mistake, but it won't work. To me, newbie who I am, it
>looks like bind simply ignores that there are additional zone files in
>its .conf-file now.
>
>So, question: How to set the options in named.conf for this to work (i.
>e. add my own dns zone to the preconfigured localhost zone)?

Just a thought, do you have a global forward only statement in the 
config, and have you overridden this in the zone declaration ?

Otherwise, try posting the full config file.

Simon

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