Hey Folks -

I have RH9 installed on a machine here at work and I wanted to setup a DNS server on it so I can connect to the DNS server via PHP for ultrafast local DNS lookups and save bandwidth across the internet connection. (Long Story).

How do I get a DNS server up and running? I went into gui mode and found "Domain Name Service" option (Using KDE) but the help wasn't too helpful in explaining that this was a DNS server and here is how you sync your DNS records to the wrold...ETC!

So if anyone wants to hit me with a quick readers digest version of how to setup the dns server, please help!!

Thanks,
Matt

read the DNS howto at www.linuxdoc.org

here's some links that might be useful... they deal with bind...

http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/

http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-09/dns_01.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/resour...d-1.html#ss1.2

some folks just install the rpm and then configure everything with something like webmin... http://www.webmin.com/