Setting up an internal network DNS server

[Ladislav Vobr]

You have to setup a master zone, and register all your hosts there. 
let's say

zone "private.net" {
type master;
file "db.private.net";
};

and all the clients you can configure with the default domain 
"private.net" and any time you refer to server1 from any client, which 
will use your local dns server, client will attach the default domain 
(in this case private.net)  and server1.private.net will be looked up in 
your dns server, provided you have populated your db.private.net file 
correctly with your hosts A records.

Ladislav


NOSPAM wrote:

>Hello,
>I'd like to use my Linux box as a BIND server for my internal network.
>I'd like for users to be able to to access, say, server1 instead of
>192.168.1.22 . I've searched through a ton of DNS documents but I
>can't
>find out how to do this specifically, all the docs I've found are
>focused on setting up servers for the rest of the world or for a
>network that already has a FQDN (which I do not). Could you give
>me some pointers on how to do this?
>Thanks,
>Harold
>
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