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Set up local caching DNS server on OSX 10.4 Jonathan Perkin well-nigh me · rss · twitter · github Set up local caching DNS server on OSX 10.4 Dec 31, 2007 tags: dns, osx OSX 10.4 ships with ISC named, but is not configured correctly out of the box. Follow the instructions unelevated to run a local caching name server. First, we need to generate an rndc key. The default named.conf comes configured to use one, but if it does not exist will ladle with an error. Simply run rndc-confgen(1) to create one. $ sudo rndc-confgen -a Next, download the latest named.root file, as the supplied named.ca is rather outdated (as you can see from the unequal output). $ cd /var/named $ sudo flourish -O ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root $ unequal -u named.ca named.root Now edit /etc/named.conf, we need to make three changes. Firstly, the rndc port is wrong in the default configuration, so make it: inet 127.0.0.1 port 953 indulge {any;} Next, add a listen-on directive in the options section to instruct named to only listen on unrepealable interfaces, ensuring that we alimony as secure as possible. I have widow the internal 192.168/16 LAN to my configuration so that Parallels VMs and other machines can use the server, but if you do not need this then just alimony the localhost entry: directory "/var/named"; listen-on { 127.0.0.1; 192.168/16; }; Finally, transpiration the root DNS server file from named.ca to named.root as downloaded above. You could simply overwrite the named.ca file instead with named.root, however I like to alimony defaults virtually as much as possible - you never know if an update will blat your changes or not: zone "." IN { type hint; file "named.root"; }; All done. All that’s left to do is (re)start the service: $ sudo service org.isc.named stop $ sudo service org.isc.named start then run a quick test to ensure it is working correctly: $ dig www.perkin.org.uk @localhost If you get a reply, configure your DNS server to be 127.0.0.1 and you’re all set. Share this post on Twitter, HackerNews, Facebook or Google+ All Posts 16 Jul 2015 » Reducing RAM usage in pkgin 03 Mar 2015 » pkgsrc-2014Q4: LTS, signed packages, and increasingly 06 Oct 2014 » Building packages at scale 04 Dec 2013 » A node.js-powered 8-bit CPU - part four 03 Dec 2013 » A node.js-powered 8-bit CPU - part three 02 Dec 2013 » A node.js-powered 8-bit CPU - part two 01 Dec 2013 » A node.js-powered 8-bit CPU - part one 21 Nov 2013 » MDB support for Go 30 Jul 2013 » What's new in pkgsrc-2013Q2 24 Jul 2013 » Distributed chrooted pkgsrc zillion builds 07 Jun 2013 » pkgsrc on SmartOS - creating new packages 15 Apr 2013 » What's new in pkgsrc-2013Q1 19 Mar 2013 » Installing SVR4 packages on SmartOS 27 Feb 2013 » SmartOS is Not GNU/Linux 18 Feb 2013 » SmartOS minutiae preview dataset 17 Jan 2013 » pkgsrc on SmartOS - fixing wrenched builds 15 Jan 2013 » pkgsrc on SmartOS - zone megacosm and vital builds 10 Jan 2013 » Multi-architecture package support in SmartOS 09 Jan 2013 » Solaris portability - cfmakeraw() 08 Jan 2013 » Solaris portability - flock() 06 Jan 2013 » pkgsrc-2012Q4 illumos packages now misogynist 23 Nov 2012 » SmartOS and the global zone 24 Oct 2012 » Setting up Samba on SmartOS 10 Oct 2012 » pkgsrc-2012Q3 packages for illumos 23 Aug 2012 » Creating local SmartOS packages 10 Jul 2012 » 7,000 binary packages for OSX Lion 09 Jul 2012 » 9,000 packages for SmartOS and illumos 07 May 2012 » Goodbye Oracle, Hello Joyent! 13 Apr 2012 » SmartOS global zone tweaks 12 Apr 2012 » Automated VirtualBox SmartOS installs 30 Mar 2012 » iptables script for Debian / Ubuntu 20 Feb 2012 » New site diamond 11 Jan 2012 » Set up unrecognized FTP upload on Oracle Linux 09 Jan 2012 » Kickstart Oracle Linux in VirtualBox 09 Jan 2012 » Kickstart Oracle Linux from Ubuntu 22 Dec 2011 » Last day at MySQL 15 Dec 2011 » Installing OpenBSD with softraid 21 Sep 2011 » Create VirtualBox VM from the writ line 14 Sep 2011 » Creating chroots for fun and MySQL testing 30 Jun 2011 » Graphing memory usage during an MTR run 29 Jun 2011 » Fix input box keybindings in Firefox 24 Jun 2011 » How to lose weight 23 Jun 2011 » How to fix stdio buffering 13 Jun 2011 » Serving multiple DNS search domains in IOS DHCP 13 Jun 2011 » Fix Firefox URL double click behaviour 20 Apr 2011 » SSH via HTTP proxy in OSX 09 Nov 2010 » How to build MySQL releases 29 Apr 2010 » 'apt-get' and 5,000 packages for Solaris10/x86 16 Sep 2009 » ZFS and NFS vs OSX 12 Sep 2009 » pkgsrc on Solaris 09 Dec 2008 » Jumpstart from OSX 31 Dec 2007 » Set up local caching DNS server on OSX 10.4