How to configure BIND 9 to act as a caching nameserver or as the nameserver for a local domain.
Table of Contents
Why serve DNS locally?
Building a caching nameserver
BIND configuration: named.conf
The root nameservers: named.root
Defining localhost
Defining 127.0.0.1
Running a local domain
Our sample network
Beefing up named.conf
The net.schroder zone file
The 10.11.12.0 reverse pointers
Putting it all together
Adding a secondary nameserver
Configuring named.conf to know about a secondary nameserver
Adding a second NS record
Configuring the secondary
And so much more