How to configure a dns server without internet connection

[Kevin Darcy]

mbm wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is it possible to configure a DNS server to manage only a set of ip
> addresse and associated hostname
>
> It means that this server cannot reply for internet addresse ( since
> the DNS server is not connected to the interne)
>   
You need to configure a root zone. In fact, when you're starting out, 
you could put *everything* in the root zone if you wanted to, although 
that gets rather unwieldy beyond a certain volume.

As a growth path, once you've established the zones on your first 
nameserver, then the second one should slave the same zone(s) (thus 
providing redundancy), the third through n'th nameservers should 
probably be slaves or simply have the (internal) root nameservers 
configured into their "hints". Only use "forward" or "stub" zones if you 
have special requirements.

                                                                         
               - Kevin