The idea of a dns server is to convert names into numbers and to validate names from numbers, for servers you have locally.
The outside world needs to know how to find your dns server too, eg from domain records etc...
If all you want is faster lookups, a caching nameserver is the idea...
and your smoothie has one already...
Have you read this how to?
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html