On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 23:39 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > Named is working properly, but I'm a bit uncomfortable about not > having defined any nameservers to use. Presumably it's just asking > the root nameservers. Yes, it's acting as a stand-alone name server. Probably the best way to use it, for simplicity's sake. > I could hard-code what DHCP would return, but I wonder if there is a > way to get that info into named automatically? I wouldn't bother, nor would I recommend changing named.conf all the time. If you really wanted, you could play with adding forwarders to your configuration file, either to always be used for looking up external addresses, or for when it can't find an answer by itself. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.