[Tfug] LAN hostnames

[Paul Scott]

Since moving from fixed local IP's to getting them from my Actiontec DSL 
gateway I have lost the ability to look up the local host names that 
used to come from the fixed entries in '/etc/hosts'.

BIND is installed.  named is running.  I have read the man pages that I 
have found and the DNS HOWTO.
joy:/etc# cat hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost loopback
192.168.0.1     actiontec

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
# (added automatically by netbase upgrade)

::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts


joy:/etc# hostname
joy


Sep 17 01:29:46 (null) named[6476]: starting (/etc/bind/named.conf). 
named 8.3.3-REL-NOESW Mon Jul  1 06:33:55 UTC 2002 
^Ibuildd@cyberhq:/build/buildd/bind-8.3.3/src/bin/named
Sep 17 01:29:46 (null) named[6476]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
Sep 17 01:29:46 (null) named[6476]: master zone "localhost" (IN) loaded 
(serial 1)
Sep 17 01:29:46 (null) named[6476]: master zone "127.in-addr.arpa" (IN) 
loaded (serial 1)
Sep 17 01:29:46 (null) named[6476]: master zone "0.in-addr.arpa" (IN) 
loaded (serial 1)
Sep 17 01:29:46 (null) named[6476]: master zone "255.in-addr.arpa" (IN) 
loaded (serial 1)
Sep 17 01:29:46 (null) named[6476]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
Sep 17 01:29:46 (null) named[6476]: listening on [192.168.0.2].53 (eth0)
Sep 17 01:29:46 (null) named[6476]: Forwarding source address is 
[0.0.0.0].32894
Sep 17 01:29:46 (null) named[6477]: Ready to answer queries.


joy:/etc# dig joy

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> joy
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 64463
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;joy.                           IN      A


Since there is no ANSWER section I would guess the answer is in the 
HEADER section.

Any hints?

TIA,

Paul Scott