On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Troy.A Johnson wrote: > Make your caching name server the primary DNS > server (first on the list in '/etc/resolv.conf') and make > sure all local hosts are in '/etc/hosts' (full and unqualified > names). If you don't want to use '/etc/hosts' you can > just configure named to be authoritative for your hosts > (then you could do reverse lookups too). In particular, dnsmasq (http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/) might be a good solution for this. It's a combination DHCP & DNS server that can serve up local DNS data (both forward and reverse) from /etc/hosts on the server. It's fairly lightweight, and the configuration is dead simple (generally, one line each in /etc/hosts and /etc/dnsmasq.conf per static DHCP entry). Discovered it a couple months ago, and I've transitioned all of my private networks to using it. Jima