Fedora Bind Setup help needed

/dev/rob0 rob0 at gmx.co.uk
Mon Dec 5 20:47:14 UTC 2005


On Sunday 2005-December-04 01:07, tech160s wrote:
> I am trying to setup a server on my local network that can run an
> internet site available to internal local users by using the fully
> qualified domain name. I run Fedora Core 4. I have setup dhcp and the
> Fedora provided caching nameserver,  the internal clients can all
> sucessfully lookup the outside world and obtain IP info from dhcp.
> I have added some more zone files and listed them in /etc/named.conf
> Restarting named and the zone files appear in /var/log/messages as
> loaded ok. When I try to ping the web server from an internal client
> using the FQDN, it sends the request out to the internet ISP DNS
> server and of course this then fails.

So tell the internal clients to use your FC4 box as their nameserver? 
This would do in dhcpd.conf, "option nameserver "ip.or.hostname";".
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