DNS Server on LAN

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c0rml2$2dgg$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Ben Heard <bdheard at netscape.net> wrote:

> I have a NAT'ing gateway router that doesn't support loopback. As such I 
> can't use www.websever.org from machine A on my LAN to hit a webserver with 
> a LAN IP address because the IP address associated with www.webserver.org 
> is that of the router (external DNS server).
> 
> So, I thought that I could run a DNS server on my LAN that only maps 
> www.webserver.org to my LAN IP address and make the router look at my LAN 
> DNS server as its primary server. All other name resolutions would go to 
> the WAN once the LAN DNS server didn't provide an answer.
> 
> The question is, how do I set up a named.conf file to support this?

zone "www.webserver.org" {
  type master;
  file "www.webserver.org.db";
}

In www.webserver.org.db, you should have:

@ IN SOA <usual SOA stuff>
  IN NS <yourmachinename>
  IN A <LAN IP address>

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA