DNS bind configuration for local addresses

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Jul 6 23:40:14 UTC 2004


Andreas Guther wrote:

>Hi:
>
>I am trying to figure out how to configure my named.conf and bind to look-up 
>local addresses without the need to have a domain registered.
>
>I would like to define a local net that resolves all my local boxes at home.
>
>My idea is to define a zone localdomain.localnet and then have all my boxes 
>defined for that zone.
>
>I set-up a localdomain.localnet zone in the named.conf file and then defined the 
>boxes in the /var/named/db.localdomain.localnet file.  But that seems not to be 
>the complete configuration.  I do not get the addresses resolved at all that are 
>defined in that file.
>
That should have worked. What do you mean "do not get the addresses 
resolved at all"? Did the nameserver come back with "no such domain", 
the wrong information, a timeout, what?

Perhaps it might help if you post your named.conf and zonefile(s).

- Kevin




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