Basic intranet setup

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Aug 1 23:03:57 UTC 2007


> There is a Fed6 server on the LAN running BIND. I want it to resolve 
> names to any requesting LAN clients without any domains, so for example 
> in their browser they can type "wiki", "issues" etc and these will 
> return the relevant IP addresses of the machines on the LAN, who will 
> then serve content accordingly. In other words, theres no mention of a 
> domain. All the tutorials I've seen are geared to setting up domains and 
> subdomains. I follow these, but can't see how I can set this most basic 
> "non-domain" system up. Any tips please? Thanks.

	Give yourself a local domain and add it to the resolver's
	search list.  Using single label absolute domain names
	went out years ago.  They really are no longer supported.

	If you still want to do it you need to add a zone per host.

	Mark
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