enable DNS

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Friday, June 11, 2004 2:55 PM -0400 David Collantes 
<david at bus.ucf.edu> wrote:

> You do not need to run DNS to do what you are trying to do, but you need
> to list a valid (or more than one) DNS on your /etc/resolv.conf, which
> should contain:
>
> search dnsdomainname.com
> nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
> nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
>
> Of course, XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX are the IP of the DNS you are going to use.
> Done!

But it's nice to run your own caching server to reduce traffic and you 
eliminate dependence on your ISP's servers. To do this, install the 
caching-nameserver RPM package. It's a config file for BIND (named) that 
runs it only as a caching server. Then enable and start the named service.

Finally, in /etc/resolv.conf, set the nameserver to 127.0.0.1 so that it 
will consult your new caching nameserver.