DNS Setting

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Originally posted here by phishphreek80
SirDice: Wouldn't it be kind of pointless (outside educational purposes) to run your own DNS server on such a small network?

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I use it for educational purposes but it also caches, forwards and is authoritive for a small domain for internal use at home. It includes things like www.mydomain.home, an MX record for mydomain.home and some records for all my (virtual) machines.

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You have one more service running than really needed. You'd just be increasing your security vulnerabilites if you don't know how to properly and securely configure it.

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Not really. This service is only available for internal clients (my own machines). It isn't accessible from the "outside".
(and I do know how to properly configure and secure it ;) )

is there anything else that should be set up to run BIND?
because I think that all my conf files are correct, but named won't start. (when I type named it seems to work) but when I ps -aux |grem named I don't get anything nor when I check the port 53 .

I responded to your email. It was a simple syntax error from the looks of things, but we won't know until he posts or replies to me. ;)

FYI

Only NameServers who have authority over IP ranges have the ability to administer PTR records.

Personally I think it is a good Idea to run your own DNS on a small network
I have 3 myself, 2 DNS's using Treewalk http://ntcanuck.com/
and one on my Qube 2... It is a good education on DNS's
And now I have and maintain 4 external and
I maintain 6 internal DNS's in 3 locations
Customers like it because they do not have to
depend on external DNS's especially if there screwey...