Hi all, I just recently bought a router for my home, and am in the process of setting up a home network.

I would like to use a RH9 box for DNS and DHCP. DHCP is up and running, but DNS has got me confused, as I have never set up DNS before.

Am I right in thinking that I can set it up so that if my RH9 box cannot resolve a host name, I can set it up to go to my ISPs DNS server, or out to the root servers?

I'm assuming (and I could be entirely wrong) that before I set up the named service I need to

#1 Set the primary DNS suffix on my RH9 box
#2 Set my RH9 box to point to itself to reslve DNS

If this is the case (or if it isnt), any help would be appreciated on how to set that up.

people often dive into BIND whatever I tell them, but if you're only after some basic internal and external dns service then i would urge you to look into dnsmasq. it's horribly simple to set up and works great.

I am setting this up to learn this stuff, I'm not looking for an easy way out.

who said it was an easy way out? just a simpler solution. if you want to full BIND experience... read the BIND docs...