[CentOS] Adding Bind to a workstation build

I need a DNS server in a test environment, so I am adding Bind to my 
notebook build.

I first did: yum install bind
rebooted
yum update
rebooted

Now I see named as a service I can start.

But when I go to /var/named to edit the files (btw, all I want to do 
at this point is to fake out a FQDN expected by a piece of gear), none exist.

And I doubt that if I start named it would be properly chrooted (as 
it was on a server where I selected named as a service to install).

So pointers?

where do I go from here?