DNS Zone File Question

[KroniK907]

Hello,

I am working to create an internal DNS server to help manage hostnames etc for the servers on my internal network.

I have named all set up and it runs great.

However the question I have regards creating a zone file so that the DNS server redirects computer hostnames to their respective IP's without having to tag on a domain.

so currently if you want to ssh to a machine named "Kiska" using a hostname you have to use:

# ssh kiska.example.lan:

however I would prefer to simply use only the hostname.

example:

# ssh kiska:

How would I create a zone file that has an empty domain?

Thanks for the help.

[Irithori]

In case you are using bind, afaik you cannot create a "catch-all" zone.

But this is not necessary anyway.
On each client in /etc/resolv.con, define

domain example.lan

or, if you have multiple domains to try

search example.lan example2.lan

Of course, you do not want to modify each /etc/resolv.conf manually, so this info usually is distributed via dhcp
dhcp-options(5) - Linux man page

option domain-name text; 
option domain-search domain-list;