how to setup dns server?

[Soo Chin Wah]

i wish to setup a linux dns server in my office but i'm not sure how? I'm using BIND version 8 and I have a fixed IP(219.93.229.166) given by my ISP and i have already registered this IP(with hostname ns.example.com) with my nic domain registrar.Attached are the the network info. of the linux machine which i want it to be my dns server, and also the contents of my named.conf. Could anyone please help me?!

[Stuart Browne]

You're looking to set up a DNS server in your office.. ok..

Will it be just for those IN the office, or is it to be for Everybody else in the world to query your Domain?

If it's just for your network, then you don't need to worry about real-word IP addresses and such.

If it's for the rest-of-the-world, then I highly reccomend you pay the tiny amount being charged by someone else to host your primary DNS records. (This is for security, bandwidth, and stability. Not to mention that they'll handle all the Secondary stuff too!).

In any case, the basic details you've shown us should work for forward DNS (name-to-IP).

[Robert Thorneycroft]

If you want to setup internal name resolution you might want to check out this link:

http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/network/html/node10.html

Hope this helps.

[Bill Thorsteinson]

The ldp Bind Howto covers everything nicely. Try http://www.tldp.org.

Note that the top level domain .LOCAL is reserved for use on internal networks.