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

Install BIND9 using Homebrew. The current brew install isn't as complete as I'd like, so when I ran into this issue myself, I updated the brew file to generate initial config files (to match the system install in Mountain Lion) as well as include a launchd plist.

Though my changes haven't been merged in yet, you can see the updated file here: github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/23598 Use brew edit bind to open the formula for BIND, and copy in my forked version, save, and reinstall with brew using brew install bind.