hello everybody,
i m working on the project related to dns and dhcp server.
me and my collegues are supposed to create our own dns server and every functionalioty of it. actually we are new to this stuff and we have studied both the protocols- how they work and all related stuff. we don't know how to proceed now. we tried dig command to create dns request packets. its not working. actually we don't want to configure the dns server
we want to create our own server with our own source code and everything , then we will be considered that we have done something.

could anyone pls tell me how we should go further.
do we need to change the kernel source code for the same.

i would be obliged with the help provided by you.
thanx

I think you should look into a real implementations (but not bind, it's too big). There are two nice examples of DNSes: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns.html and http://sourceforge.net/projects/posadis/

What happens with dig so it doesn't work? It produces proper requests. You should be able to get them using tcpdump or any other sniffer.