I have recently set up Cent OS to act as a DNS server.
How do I set it up so that the 1st DNS server clients use is the internal DNS server & not the I.S.P's DNS server?
I have also entered my DNS server IP address in the /etc/resolv.conf file & set it so that its not overwritten upon a server reboot.
Many Thanks
Simon

your machine will give the priority according to the order of DNS server IP in your resolv.conf

So mention your IP in resolv.conf then make your ISP's IP as secondary
to give a test

as in my case (look out for the server address in red)

Hi Deepak
Here is a copy of my /etc/resolv.conf file:

; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
# search cable.my-isp.net
# search nameserver.mydomain.co.uk
nameserver 192.168.1.1
nameserver 194.168.4.100
nameserver 194.168.8.100
/etc/resolv.conf (END)

My clients show my name server as the 1st DNS server.
If I ping my name server , the ping trace shows it still using the ISP's DNS servers.
I suspect that it may be acting as a Caching only server as opposed to being a master server on the local network.

I also found the following in the /etc directory:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root named 52 Dec 23 10:58 /etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf -> /var/named/chroot//etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jan 11 18:55 /etc/named.conf -> /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root named 42 Dec 23 10:58 /etc/named.rfc1912.zones -> /var/named/chroot//etc/named.rfc1912.zones

And in /var/named/chroot/etc/

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root named 433 Dec 23 18:39 191.168.1.zone
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3661 Jan 17 09:42 localtime
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root named 1586 Dec 23 08:38 named.210308
-rw-r----- 1 root named 1230 Nov 17 22:22 named.caching-nameserver.conf
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1230 Jan 17 09:26 named.caching-nameserver.conf.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root named 1835 Jan 17 09:59 named.conf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root named 1733 Dec 23 09:16 named.conf_bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root named 1449 Dec 23 08:38 named.conf.bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root named 219 Dec 23 08:38 named.conf.rpmsave
-rw-r----- 1 root named 955 Nov 17 22:22 named.rfc1912.zones
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root named 76 Dec 23 09:42 rndc.key

Thanks again in advance
Simon

are you sure your internal DNS server is up and running properly?
post the output of these commands

Sorry for the late reply, here are the results:




dig -x 192.168.1.1

; <<>> DiG 9.7.4-P1-RedHat-9.7.4-2.P1.fc14 <<>> -x 192.168.1.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 18538
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR

;; Query time: 50 msec
;; SERVER: 194.168.4.100#53(194.168.4.100)
;; WHEN: Tue Jan 24 10:25:37 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 42

dig SERVER

; <<>> DiG 9.7.4-P1-RedHat-9.7.4-2.P1.fc14 <<>> SERVER
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48530
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;SERVER. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
SERVER. 0 IN A 81.200.64.50

;; Query time: 20 msec
;; SERVER: 194.168.4.100#53(194.168.4.100)
;; WHEN: Tue Jan 24 10:25:48 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 42

I am afraid but your DNS is not configured properly
follow this link

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...se-zone-24628/