Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: > On Wednesday 02 December 2015 20:37:34 lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is there a way to configure bind so that the names of local hosts, >> i. e. the ones bind is authoritative for, can be resolved without a >> connection to the internet? >> >> I don't like it at all that when the internet connection goes out, no >> name resolution at all is possible. Since the information about the >> local hosts is known to bind from its configuration files, why can't it >> just resolve them? > > Have you looked into net-dns/dnsmasq?
"Small forwarding DNS server"? Why would I want a forwarding one?