[Newbie] Making a caching-only bind9 manage a local zone?!

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Thore Schmechtig <WRITETOcommoner at carcosa.de> wrote:
> Hi all,

> I have a small home network with 3 clients and one linux server (SuSE 
> 8.1 pro, IP Masquerading + caching-only bind9) that connects the 
> clients to the net. I use a dialup DSL connection, named.conf is 
> dynamically modified by smpppd. I have been running bind9 with the 
> preconfigured caching-only config without problems for several months 
> now.
> Now I want to add zone files for my own zone, but bind just won't find 
> the data in there. I have checked out the DNS howto in tldp.org, I 
> cannot find any mistake, but it won't work. To me, newbie who I am, it 
> looks like bind simply ignores that there are additional zone files in 
> its .conf-file now.

> So, question: How to set the options in named.conf for this to work (i. 
> e. add my own dns zone to the preconfigured localhost zone)? 

Have you done 'rndc reload' ?

Whats in the logfile ?

> (I am aware that this will probably sound like a silly question to you 
> experts out there, but I have just tried for an entire hour to make it 
> work, I have triple-checked the syntax of my zone files and .conf-files 
> against the tldp.org faq, and I'll be damned if I find any error there 
> - yep I'm desperate :( )
Buy "managing DNS and bind" by cricket liu ( o'reilly) 



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