I am running a local DNS server for .lan zone on another linux machine on the intranet. This DNS also works as a cacheing name server.
Here's linux.lan's /etc/resolve.conf
Code:
search lan
nameserver 192.168.11.1
Running dig on linux.lan would yield following:
Code:
# dig linux.lan
; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> linux.lan
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4786
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;linux.lan. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
linux.lan. 86400 IN A 192.168.11.3
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
lan. 86400 IN NS gateway.lan.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
gateway.lan. 86400 IN A 192.168.11.1
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.11.1#53(192.168.11.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Jan 13 15:44:02 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 80