"...The DNS is vitally important to the proper operation of almost all services on the Internet, and the deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone is the biggest structural improvement to the DNS to happen in twenty years.

Setting up a dns at home do not require a masters degree in black magic. Following this 3 part series will guide you through the steps needed to set up a caching dns that resolves for a small home network or a small business network.

Ubuntu 9.04 DNS will probably be broken on install. However, the fix is simple enough. The problem relates to rndc which is the command program used to control Bind9. Here are two tests you can do to verify that it is the exact same problem.

Software for providing DNS and DHCP services have typically come from ISC in the form of BIND and dhcpd. While these software packages are quite robust and, for the most part, quite secure, there are other alternatives that may work better depending on your situation. For smaller home or office networks, managing BIND and dhcpd may be overkill.

This is a step by step tutorial on how to install and configure DNS server for your LAN using bind9. The DNS server will provide caching and name resolution as well as reverse name resolution for your local network. In this tutorial, we will use the domain "debian.lan" and this will be the domain of your local network.

The group responsible for maintaining the internet's most popular domain name software BIND has admitted it caused problems by fast-tracking a security patch designed to fix the widescale DNS flaw discovered by researcher Dan Kaminsky this month.

This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 8 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.