1. domain mydomain.com 2. nameserver 192.168.222.2 3. nameserver 192.168.222.3
You actually don't need this file to have your machine be a nameserver, but you'll need it if you want to do any lookups.
1. The domain that this machine is
in is mydomain.com, so if you do a lookup on just sevilla
without the mydomain.com, it will assume you mean sevilla.mydomain.com.
(If you want to expand on this, investigate the search
directive.)
2-3. The IP addresses of the name
servers to use. Change 192.168.222.2 and
192.168.222.3 to whatever
you want to use for your nameservers. This list can be as
long as you want. The machines
have to be running named...
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