I am interested in building a domain name server. I have a junk PC with SuSE 9.0, so I'm ready to installing and configuring. I want to make this into a caching name server, and although I've read a HOWTO, it didn't work. I configured my named.conf and wrote a zone file. but when I dug my domain I couldn't find it. Has someone done this, or know how to do it?

Thanks,
-Peter

do you want to build a static DNS server or a dynamic DNS server, below is a link to a how-to listed on my wesbite for a DDNS server

http://www.yourhowto.org/content/view/36/9/

Well, I tried the howto, and here are my config files:

http://24.225.65.94/named.conf
http://24.225.65.94/dhcpd.conf
http://24.225.65.94/enviro-hosting.com

I restarted named and did an rndc reload and I still get no response when I dig enviro-hosting.com. What did I do wrong? I'm a little new to DNS as you can probably tell .

Thanks,
-Peter

are you using this as an internal DDNS server or external? because the how is for an internal DDNS server and from the host name you've just show me i'm guessing external, what i've shown you wont help

Ok, this is getting a little beyond what I can understand. Let me explain my situation in it's entirity: I'm starting a website building company-ish something or other that recycles old desktop computers into snazy servers for organizations, teachers, computer camps and the like. Anyway, I have apache2 running my site at http://24.225.65.94 (Check it out! By no means finished.), and I want to get my computer to act as a domain name server, so I don't have to pay DynDns an arm, a leg, and a kidnee to get a domain. I'm looking for www.enviro-hosting.com. After reading a number of howto's it appears that I have to have a netbios server, something I'm completely neglagent about. I can tell you all about IP packets etc, but Netbios is something I barely understand. All I know is that it's an IBM protocol that designates some low-level form of DNS-ish workgroup. Now, this I don't have, seeing how my network consists of a linksys wrt54g wireless router running sveasoft satori some-version, and the server is suse 9.0 barely running fvwm2 at 350MHz. Does this explain my situation? I really need to learn more about DNS.

Thanks,
-Peter

well i'm sorry but this how-to it's for you, i've never setup an external DNS server and thats what you want, this is an internal DDNS server. you might want to go and post again, this time make your subject, 'external Dyn DNS server how-to' then, link to this forum and explain in deepth what you are trying to do.

OK, I'll do that.
Thanks for the help,
-Peter