This article will take you through how to construct a basic BIND Zone file and save it to your PC ready to upload to your Name Sever on the Internet. A Zone file is just a text file. To create the Zone file use any text editor for example Notepad, or (some of my favourites) TextPad or vi.

Now that you have created a Zone file and uploaded it to your Name Server, this article documents how to edit named.conf.local and include the zone.

This article explains how to copy files to and from your Name Server using pscp.

You've created a Zone File and uploaded it to your Name Server. You've edited named.conf.local, added the Zone and uploaded the edited file to your Name Server. All that's left now is to reload BIND and check you Zone is resolving. This article documents how to reload BIND.