> Dear You,
> 
> Is it possible to define local names (which do not show outside the local
> domain) using bind?  It would be nice to have a working forward and reverse
> name service for, say, 10.0.0.0 network, without showing the names to the
> outside world (and how do you get reverse lookups working, anyway?).


why not?!

i'm using it regularly - defining domains "l." and "10.in-addr.arpa" in
named.
works perfect. don't forget to not allow querying and transfering this
domains from outside world unless you want everybody to see names of
internal network machines etc.