>> Setting up your own DNS server is *easy*.
>
> Do you have a recommended howto Vic? Or is this more a case of JFGI? :)
It's more "JFDI" than "JFGI" :-)
Most modern distros seem to ship a nameserver configured as caching-only,
so all you need do is to install it ("yum install bind" or somesuch),
start it (chkconfig, service, you know the score), and point your
/etc/resolv.conf at localhost...
If you want to be a little more adventurous & start running a nameserver
for your own domain, I wrote a walkthrough at
http://beer.org.uk/bsacdns/
. It's targetted at one of my customers who was having a hard time, and
it;s now *very* dated (I was still running RH8.0 when I wrote it), but
some people seem to have found it useful. But note that you don't have to
do any of that just to do your own resolution...
Vic.
