Bind, will it work for local dev dns? [solved]

Question

im trying to get bind to work, and trying to get my stack overflow points up lately too,
will bind work for what i need it for?
i have a lamp stack arch box here, and im putting bind on it, hopefully to solve an issue.  briefly, i want this lamp stack to also be my internal network's dns server,  for a specific purpose.  that purpose is so that on my windows dev machine, i dont have to fuck with my etc/hosts file any more, and so that i can finally designate this lamp stack server with a real domain name structure (e.g. on httpd.conf ServeName=finally.domain.pvt, as opposed to ServerName=192.168.1.10:80, and so that i can simplify my vhosts file too, by having a domain standard finally.  so i aim to replace etc/hosts entries (e.g. shitter.domain.pvt, pisser.domain.pvt, pooper.domain.pvt, ideally into *.domain.pvt on zone file) with A record entries so they are propegated to all pcs on the network.  is this possible?
see this for all the details.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2987 … -on-server
Last edited by wolfdogg (2015-04-27 08:00:41)

Answer 1

solved
one problem was being shed light from
journalctl -xn
, i needed to do what was mentioned here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p1391324  to solve those issues. the file, and dir were missing.
the rest of teh problems were worked out with a better understanding of the zone file, and with finally getting logging working ( see named.conf for that)
if somebody wants to add this to the wiki, and or make a wiki called local dns server, or something, feel free, otherwise, i will end up getting this stuff in there in due time. 
// vim:set ts=4 sw=4 et:
acl "trusted" {
192.168.1.0/24;
127.0.0.0/8;
options {
directory "/var/named";
pid-file "/run/named/named.pid";
listen-on { trusted; };
listen-on-v6 { any; };
allow-query { trusted; };
allow-transfer { none; };
allow-update { none; };
forwarders {
8.8.4.4;
8.8.8.8;
query-source address * port 53;
version none;
hostname none;
server-id none;
logging {
channel default_file {
file "/var/log/named/default.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel general_file {
file "/var/log/named/general.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel database_file {
file "/var/log/named/database.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel security_file {
file "/var/log/named/security.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel config_file {
file "/var/log/named/config.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel resolver_file {
file "/var/log/named/resolver.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel xfer-in_file {
file "/var/log/named/xfer-in.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel xfer-out_file {
file "/var/log/named/xfer-out.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel notify_file {
file "/var/log/named/notify.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel client_file {
file "/var/log/named/client.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel unmatched_file {
file "/var/log/named/unmatched.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel queries_file {
file "/var/log/named/queries.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel network_file {
file "/var/log/named/network.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel update_file {
file "/var/log/named/update.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel dispatch_file {
file "/var/log/named/dispatch.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel dnssec_file {
file "/var/log/named/dnssec.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
channel lame-servers_file {
file "/var/log/named/lame-servers.log" versions 3 size 5m;
severity dynamic;
print-time yes;
category default { default_file; };
category general { general_file; };
category database { database_file; };
category security { security_file; };
category config { config_file; };
category resolver { resolver_file; };
category xfer-in { xfer-in_file; };
category xfer-out { xfer-out_file; };
category notify { notify_file; };
category client { client_file; };
category unmatched { unmatched_file; };
category queries { queries_file; };
category network { network_file; };
category update { update_file; };
category dispatch { dispatch_file; };
category dnssec { dnssec_file; };
category lame-servers { lame-servers_file; };
zone "ld.pvt" IN {
type master;
file "ld.pvt.zone";
$TTL 7200
@ 1D IN SOA ns1.ld.pvt. root.ld.pvt. (
2007011622 ; Serial
3H ; Refresh
15M ; Retry
1W ; Expire - 1 week
1D ) ; Minimum
IN NS ns1.ld.pvt.
ns1.ld.pvt. IN A 192.168.1.10
*.ld.pvt. IN CNAME ns1.ld.pvt.
redtail.ld.pvt. IN A 192.168.1.99