OSX Mavericks - BIND no longer installed… how to get local DNS server working?

Question

I have always used BIND on OSX to provide a local DNS resolver for my local development machines, particularly to facilitate virtual machines accessing my local dev environment.

Answer 1

Installing Homebrew and using it to installing bind seems the best route.

There are few little "gotcha's", so I put together this bash script to simplify it all.

1) Install Homebrew.

2) Save this file to your Mac as "ConfigureBrewBindOnOSX10_9.sh" and run it (sh ./ConfigureBrewBindOnOSX10_9.sh) , or run it's commands line-by-line by hand (if you want to see more detail as you go.

Contents of ConfigureBrewBindOnOSX10_9.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Last Updated: Jun 17, 2014
# camden@arrowtech.net
#
# Run as root or sudo the commands that need it as you go.

# 1) USE HOMEBREW TO INSTALL BIND

brew install bind

# 2) CONFIGURE BIND

# Create a custom launch key for BIND

/usr/local/sbin/rndc-confgen > /etc/rndc.conf
head -n 6 /etc/rndc.conf > /etc/rndc.key

# Set up a basic named.conf file.
# You may need to replace 9.10.0-P2 with the current version number if it is out of date.

cat > /usr/local/homebrew/Cellar/bind/9.10.0-P2/etc/named.conf  < /var/named/named.ca


# 3) CREATE A LuanchDaemon FILE: 

cat > /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.isc.named.plist <



        Disabled
        
        EnableTransactions
        
        Label
        org.isc.named
        OnDemand
        
        ProgramArguments
        
                /usr/local/sbin/named
                -f
        
        ServiceIPC
        


END

chown root:wheel /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.isc.named.plist 
chmod 644 /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.isc.named.plist 

# Shutdown bind (if it was running)
#launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.isc.named.plist


# Launch BIND and set it to start automatically on system reboot.
launchctl load -wF /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.isc.named.plist

Let me know if you need any help, I've successfully configured this on quiet a few machines.