Hi -
It should be as simple as going into YaST2 and enabling DNS.
You didn't provide any specifics as to what you tried, or what might have gone wrong.
Definitely look at your /var/log/messages file, to see if there were any errors when you tried to start "named".
But look here for some *very* useful troublshooting tips:
http://forums.opensuse.org/network-i...pensuse11.html