djbdns Guide - Setup of your own name server

v1.01, by Neoteksystems (improved LinuxReviews.org), there are a number of reasons, someone might want to run a DNS local/cache server. Maybe your ISP DNS servers are through, perhaps your connection on and just wanna get things a little faster, or perhaps something completely different.

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This guide walks you through the process of setting up your own DNS server/local cache for your network. This guide assumes that you are using Gentoo Linux, but 99.9% of the information is valid for any Linux distribution.

First step:

First of all, we need to get xinetd up and running (since we intend to run it as a service for all the computers on our network).

emerges xinetd /etc/init.d/xinetd start rc-last updated add default xinetd

You'll probably also want to change the default setting only_from

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