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; }; listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; }; directory "/var/named"; dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt"; allow-query { localhost; }; recursion yes; forwarders { 68.87.77.130; 68.87.72.130; }; }; logging { channel default_debug { file "data/named.run"; severity dynamic; }; }; zone "." IN { type hint; file "named.ca"; }; include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones"; zone "home.local" { type master; file "/var/named/home.local.hosts"; }; zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.zone"; allow-update { key "rndckey"; }; notify yes; I have the files in /var/named setup and configured. From the DNS system I can type nslookup 43p and get the following [root at fc9 named]# vi /etc/named.conf [root at fc9 named]# nslookup 43p Server: 127.0.0.1 Address: 127.0.0.1#53 Name: 43p.home.local Address: 192.168.1.52