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.

Foolishly I decided to upgrade to OSX Mavericks overnight and it appears BIND is no longer installed - even when the command line developer tools are added.

Anyone have a suggestion of how to restore this functionality, or if the latest OSX has an alternative DNS solution in place?

Thanks, Steve

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 # [email protected] # # 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 # You may need to replace 9.10.0-P2 with the current version number if it is out of date.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  <<END // // Include keys file // include "/etc/rndc.key";  // Declares control channels to be used by the rndc utility. // // It is recommended that 127.0.0.1 be the only address used. // This also allows non-privileged users on the local host to manage // your name server.  // // Default controls // controls {         inet 127.0.0.1 port 54 allow {any;}         keys { "rndc-key"; }; };  options {         directory "/var/named"; };  //  // a caching only nameserver config //  zone "." IN {     type hint;     file "named.ca"; };  zone "localhost" IN {     type master;     file "localhost.zone";     allow-update { none; }; };  zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {     type master;     file "named.local";     allow-update { none; }; };  logging {         category default {                 _default_log;         };          channel _default_log  {                 file "/Library/Logs/named.log";                 severity info;                 print-time yes;         }; };  END  # Symlink Homebrew's named.conf to the typical /etc/ location.  ln -s /usr/local/homebrew/Cellar/bind/9.10.0-P2/etc/named.conf /etc/named.conf    # Create directory that bind expects to store zone files  mkdir /var/named  curl http://www.internic.net/domain/named.root > /var/named/named.ca   # 3) CREATE A LuanchDaemon FILE:   cat > /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.isc.named.plist <<END <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict>         <key>Disabled</key>         <false/>         <key>EnableTransactions</key>         <true/>         <key>Label</key>         <string>org.isc.named</string>         <key>OnDemand</key>         <false/>         <key>ProgramArguments</key>         <array>                 <string>/usr/local/sbin/named</string>                 <string>-f</string>         </array>         <key>ServiceIPC</key>         <false/> </dict> </plist> 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.