sir, i installed RHEL-5AS in my computer.i wanna configure DNS server.the package need for that is BIND & caching-nameserver must be installed.But in ADD & remove packages list, these two pakages not be listed.its shows all the packages are installed.But when i checked with "rpm -q bind.It shows this package is not installed.Then how i configure my DNS server.Plz help me.Thanks.

install named

Just my two cents: Running your own DNS does have a great number of advantages, it's not a great idea unless you have at least two servers dedicated to running DNS. Otherwise when one of your sites get's Slashdotted all of your domains are down, because their DNS is hosted on the same server as their sites.

Are you colocating this server, or is this in house? Either way you can talk to the people who provide you with IP space and see if they've got some DNS servers for you to take advantage of while you learn about DNS on a spare server.

you may need following packages:
bind.i386
bind-utils.i386
caching-nameserver
bind-libs.i386
bind-chroot
bind-devel
bind-libbind-devel
bind-sdb
system-config-bind (GUI tool)

you can use "rpm -q <package-name>"
or "yum -C list|grep bind" to check

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