I would save myself the grief of running a DNS and set my resolv.conf to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 See: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/network.html ET Derek Trotter writes: > Since I signed up with my ISP I've had trouble with dns. Sometimes urls > take a long time to resolve. Other times I get errors saying the url > couldn't be found. Sometimes a page won't load properly because parts of > it come from other urls and those don't resolve. Calls to tech support are > a waste of time. So I want to host dns at home. > > On 10/3/2012 13:14, James Mcphee wrote: >> No, this is somewhat arcane, but depending on what functions you want, >> can be quite simple. DNS works by reference, so you don't load the >> world's DNS onto your server. That server will still need valid external >> DNS servers. >> >> I prefer BIND, myself. I have friends that enjoy PowerDNS. What exact >> uses are you trying to get out of it? >> >> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Derek Trotter > > wrote: >> >> I'm thinking of running dns at home on my linux box(kubuntu 8). I >> don't want a caching server. Would this be difficult to set up? >> Would this consume a lot of bandwidth? >> >> Thanks >> >> -- "One mistake up here and it's half a day out with the >> undertaker!" >> - Fred Dibnah >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> >> -- >> James McPhee >> jmcphe@gmail.com >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- > "One mistake up here and it's half a day out with the undertaker!" > - Fred Dibnah > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss