BIND question, resolving local IPs

I have a DNS server on an FC4 machine. It works fine for resolving
internet URLs however it doesn't resolve the machine names on my LAN. I've
been handling this in a brute force way by putting all of my local IPs in
the /etc/hosts file on each system. That works fine for my Linux systems
but occasionally I have to boot one of my boxes into Windows and I don't
know where the Windows equiv of /etc/hosts is. Rather then find out I'd
like to do it the right way and have my DNS server handle it.

Is there a way to get BIND to read the local /etc/hosts file or failing
that is there an equivalent file that BIND does read? All I want to do is
get BIND to resolve the names of my local boxes in the same way as it
handles URLs.

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:33:47 -0500, General Schvantzkoph wrote:

>
>
> I have a DNS server on an FC4 machine. It works fine for resolving
> internet URLs however it doesn't resolve the machine names on my LAN. I've
> been handling this in a brute force way by putting all of my local IPs in
> the /etc/hosts file on each system. That works fine for my Linux systems
> but occasionally I have to boot one of my boxes into Windows and I don't
> know where the Windows equiv of /etc/hosts is. Rather then find out I'd
> like to do it the right way and have my DNS server handle it.
>
> Is there a way to get BIND to read the local /etc/hosts file or failing
> that is there an equivalent file that BIND does read? All I want to do is
> get BIND to resolve the names of my local boxes in the same way as it
> handles URLs.

You will need to setup forward and reverse zones for your local network.
You should be able to get the info off tldp.org. look for the DNS howto.
Bind will not read /etc/hosts file that is what the resolver does.

--
Dancin' in the ruins tonight
Tayo'y Mga Pinoy

General Schvantzkoph wrote:
> I have a DNS server on an FC4 machine. It works fine for resolving
> internet URLs however it doesn't resolve the machine names on my LAN. I've
> been handling this in a brute force way by putting all of my local IPs in
> the /etc/hosts file on each system. That works fine for my Linux systems
> but occasionally I have to boot one of my boxes into Windows and I don't
> know where the Windows equiv of /etc/hosts is. Rather then find out I'd
> like to do it the right way and have my DNS server handle it.
>
> Is there a way to get BIND to read the local /etc/hosts file or failing
> that is there an equivalent file that BIND does read? All I want to do is
> get BIND to resolve the names of my local boxes in the same way as it
> handles URLs.
>
>
>
Yes. There is.
man bind will get you to it.

You need to set up a 'oacl' zone..forward and reverse files will be needed.


However you have to make sure that local machines use this one as their
DNS server.

[Followup-to comp.os.linux.networking]

Hello,

General Schvantzkoph a écrit :
>
> Is there a way to get BIND to read the local /etc/hosts file or failing
> that is there an equivalent file that BIND does read?

No. But dnsmasq does it, if all you need is a DNS forwarder (not a cache
or an authoritative server).

> All I want to do is
> get BIND to resolve the names of my local boxes in the same way as it
> handles URLs.

Huh ? BIND does not handle URLs.