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