Dear all, I am just trying to understand BIND. I would like my DNS-Server to resolve it's own name. Is that possible or do I have to put it into /etc/hosts? A ping to kutter.carsten.peters.name (see zone file below) doesn't work either. Why? - hostname of my machine: caluta.carsten.peters.name - IP address: 192.168.1.3 - /etc/nsswitch.conf - hosts: files dns - /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost - /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver 192.168.1.3 nameserver 194.179.1.100 #ISP's DNS DNS caching-only running and working. Then I added a zone to the end of /etc/named.conf Here is the whole file: === // generated by named-bootconf.pl // // a caching only nameserver config // #include "/etc/rndc.key"; options { /* * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source * directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged * port by default. */ // query-source address * port 53; directory "/var/named"; }; controls { inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; }; }; zone "." { type hint; file "named.ca"; }; zone "localhost" { allow-update { none; }; type master; file "localhost.zone"; }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" { allow-update { none; }; type master; file "named.local"; }; zone "carsten.peters.name" { type master; file "carsten.peters.name.zone"; }; === Here is the new zone file: === $TTL 86400 caluta.carsten.peters.name. IN SOA carsten.peters.name root ( 5 ; serial 28800 ; refresh 14400 ; retry 3600000 ; expire 86400 ; ttl ) caluta IN NS 192.168.1.3 caluta IN A 192.168.1.3 kutter IN A 192.168.1.2 === -- Saludos, Carsten "Las instrucciones decÃan "instalar Windows XP/2000 o superior"... ...pues instalà Linux!"