I would save myself the grief of running a DNS and set my resolv.conf to
8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
See:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/network.html
ET
Derek Trotter writes:
> Since I signed up with my ISP I've had trouble with dns. Sometimes urls
> take a long time to resolve. Other times I get errors saying the url
> couldn't be found. Sometimes a page won't load properly because parts of
> it come from other urls and those don't resolve. Calls to tech support are
> a waste of time. So I want to host dns at home.
>
> On 10/3/2012 13:14, James Mcphee wrote:
>> No, this is somewhat arcane, but depending on what functions you want,
>> can be quite simple. DNS works by reference, so you don't load the
>> world's DNS onto your server. That server will still need valid external
>> DNS servers.
>>
>> I prefer BIND, myself. I have friends that enjoy PowerDNS. What exact
>> uses are you trying to get out of it?
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan@gmail.com
>> <mailto:expat.arizonan@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I'm thinking of running dns at home on my linux box(kubuntu 8). I
>> don't want a caching server. Would this be difficult to set up?
>> Would this consume a lot of bandwidth?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -- "One mistake up here and it's half a day out with the
>> undertaker!"
>> - Fred Dibnah
>>
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