jpd schrieb:
> Siegbert Baude wrote:

First, thanks jpd for your fast answer. :-)

>> So my first question will I run into trouble, when I just want to
>> configure a local bind9 server, to resolve my local names in my 192.168
>> subnet, when at the same time I also want correct resolution for the
>> external servers www.domain.com, mail.domain.com?
>
> Rememer that domains are hierarchical. So with your example.com
> registered and hosted somewhere, you could simply setup a
> home.example.com with all the local names in them. Then on the local
> machines, set the searchpath to home.example.com for lazy typing.

Ah, I didn't think of a subdomain, but this seems to be the easiest
solution. I will try this and come back here, if I encounter any
problems with the setup.

> BTW, don't forget to setup a reverse zone for the private
> range you're using, if only to avoid leakage of those queries to the
> root servers.

I already tried this without using a subdomain (so my local hosts were
called pc1.example.com, pc2.example.com,...), but reverse lookup didn't
work (normal lookup did however). This was the moment, when I started to
think, if my approach is really sensible. But it could have been also
just a misconfiguration on my side, as I'm new to DNS setups.

Ciao
Siegbert