Do the bind9 webconfigurator screens generate zones files?

[tazmo]

Hi gurus-

I am implementing a three-legged dmz with haproxy. Since I need dmz hosts to communicate with each other, I set up bind9 on pfsense as a authoritative name server for just the dmz zone. It also acts as a recursive name server out to the internet… but it's not answering dns queries from the WAN (by design).

After installing the bind package, I used the webconfigurator to create a named.conf file with forward and reverse zones. After starting named, it didn't  pick up the zones. After I ssh'd in, I see named running in a chrooted environment, I found named.conf (which says DO NOT EDIT - which I won't), but I can NOT find any of the zone files??

Is the webconfigurator supposed to also generate the zones files?

I see the zone entries in the config.xml file I entered with the webconfigurator but named (obviously) doesn't see those entries.

I eventually had to use the webconfigurator to put the zone definitions in named.conf with "file" pointers, then hand create the zone files.

Is this they way the BIND package works on pfSense?

Just trying to clarify (either that or I missed something BIG  :o)

Thanks,
Bob

ps. I'm running pfsense v2.3.2-p1.