Configure bind for private home network without top level domain
Peter Albrecht
pa at suse.de
Wed Jul 7 13:11:18 UTC 2004
Hi Andreas,
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 14:34, 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.
>
> I can restart named without errors. I tested the zone file with
named-checkzone
> and get no errors. I also see that the number of loaded zones has
increased.
>
> I tried for find examples for such a set-up but all I find always seems to
> assume that one needs a registered domain.
>
> I would like to achieve a dns server set-up for a local net without the need
to
> having a domain registered or maintaining a public name server for such a
domain.
>
no, you do not have to have a registered domain.
> Any pointer to examples or what especially needs to be considered would be a
> great help.
What error messages do you get? Do you have your local DNS server defined
in /etc/resolv.conf? Do you have _two_ files, for forward and reverse lookup?
Could you please post your named.conf?
Regards,
Peter
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Peter Albrecht, SUSE LINUX AG, peter.albrecht at suse.de
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