hi, thank you for your replied..
I want to setup for our local project only which is for LAN network only.. which other pc can look at my server and other machines/servers can look to this server or reversable.. can you guide me on how to setup this? I have named.conf installed on my server.. sorry I'm quite new to this, I have looked through the document or articles on internet but somehow its quite confusing.. maybe this will be a good start for others as well.. I will post this to my blog to teach other persons when I able to set this by myself..
once again thank you for your response and help for me.. appreciate it!!!
---------- Post updated 10-26-09 at 11:11 AM ---------- Previous update was 10-25-09 at 11:07 PM ----------
hi, btw this is my /etc/named.conf file.. what I do really want is other servers or pc's can look to this server.. or this server can look to other servers.. lets say I name my server trial1, trial2, trial3, trial4.. I want them can look or resolve each other if it's possible. I guess 1 server must be a master while the rest are slaves
//
// named.conf for Red Hat caching-nameserver
//
options {
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
/*
* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
* port by default.
*/
// query-source address * port 53;
};
//
// a caching only nameserver config
//
controls {
inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };
};
zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};
zone "localdomain" IN {
type master;
file "localdomain.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "localhost" IN {
type master;
file "localhost.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.local";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.ip6.local";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "255.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.broadcast";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "0.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.zero";
allow-update { none; };
};
include "/etc/rndc.key";
---------- Post updated at 01:28 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:11 AM ----------
lets say the name of this server is trial1, I tried to do nslookup from this trial1 server whether it will give a response.. below is my config and details
#/etc/init.d/named start [ok]
#ps -ef | grep named
named 19510 1 0 10:42 ? 00:00:02 /usr/sbin/named -u named -t /var/named/chroot
#cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.20.21 trial1
#cat /etc/resolv.conf
search trial1
nameserver 192.168.20.21
#nslookup trial1
Server: 192.168.20.21
Address: 192.168.20.21#53
** server can't find trial1: SERVFAIL
---------- Post updated at 05:35 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:28 PM ----------
I have modified the zone and somehow able to nslookup my trial1 server.. I name the trial1 server as server.trial1.com
and I changed the zone name to server.trial1.com and modified the ipaddress inside..
the question is.. if I am using the other servers lets say TRIAL2, how can I make this trial2 to nslookup trial1?
because I tried that but it was not able to.. sigh* I have no one to guide me through this 
