Can BIND resolve "nodomain" machine names? "myserver", not "myserver.mydomain"...?

[Joao Clemente <jpcl@rnl.ist.utl.pt>]

I was using dnsmasq in my networks, with wich I was happy till my ISP 
changed nameservers and I was left without a network of 10 machines 
complaining they had no Internet...

Well, I decided to setup BIND on those machines, but I am missing a 
feature of dnsmasq that I can't find a way to setup bind with:
dnsmasq reads /etc/hosts and is able to respond to queries to whatever 
is in that file... we can setup /etc/hosts with:
192.168.1.1 myserver
192.168.1.2 proxy
192.168.1.3 printServer

and query from the network for these names...
Does anyone knows how to setup bind to do this? It ony seems to be able 
to read configs for domains/zones, and I've tried
zone ""
with no sucess...

I know how to work around this: I setup my local network names in 
"mydomain" zone and setup all my clients to "search mydomain"... but 
before doing all these changes I would like to be sure there is no way 
to do what dnsmasq did...

Anyone knows?

Thanks
Joao Clemente