Tim wrote:
Andy Green:
Why not try running your own DNS lookups, it's pretty easy with Fedora.
yum install bind caching-nameserver
echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" >/etc/resolv.conf
There may be other things in the resolv.conf files that ought to remain
there, that line will wipe them out. Also, the resolv.conf file may get
changed by dynamic network scripting.
That's true. Use # to comment things out and add
nameserver 127.0.0.1
if that's the case. But any crapped-upon additional things shouldn't
stop it working as a generic nameserver for non-local boxes.
I tried this with no success.
Is there a need to make local zone files specific to local domain? I
have read that some setups require a local.zone file with the local
domain name.
You only have to add zone records if you want your name server to
respond to those queries. You can continue to use your hosts file for
local machine names, if you want.
Yeah you don't need to set anything else up to use it as a caching
nameserver that looks up direct to the root servers. This is very handy
if you have overloaded or broken ISP nameservers.
In addition to dig use tcpdump while you do a nameserver query and see
what is flying around.
-Andy
