<silentser@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> [...] When I've installed BIND on my MacBook, since both at home and
> in the university I'm connected to the Internet via routers that have
> a DNS server, no matter what I define as "DNS Servers" in my network
> configuration the resolution requests do not get to my local DNS
> server. As result I can't try it on my own.

Are you querying outside servers, and expecting them to ask your
DNS server for something, anything? None of them have any reason to.

Make your local server authoritative for some zone of your own
devising, and query your server for it directly. And don't 'borrow'
someone else's domain name, use something like 'ons.silentser.local.'
that is guaranteed not to clash with anything out in the open.


> [...] What did you mean by saying "Wouldn't it be easier to use
> different address class, or different records types"? Could you
> please specify in more detail?

You mentioned NS and A records. There are others, and you can define
and use your own. How, I don't know. I suggest you read lots and lots
of documentation.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink