James wrote:
> I inserted your suggestion and the connection is still refused.
>  
> I also tried to telnet to the port and the telnet gets refused.
>  
> Thanks
> James
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Munir Nassar <tclug at beitsahour.net 
> <mailto:tclug at beitsahour.net>> wrote:
>
>     James wrote:
>     > Howdy,
>     >
>     > I have Fedora 9 installed and would like to use it as the DNS
>     system in
>     > the house.
>     >
>     > The setup is as follows
>     >
>     > options {
>     >         listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1/>
>     <http://127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1/>>; };
>

Need to change this to listen on all your interfaces,

also dns is udp, you cannot telnet to port 53 to test it out, use host 
@localhost www.example.com or dig www.example.com localhost