Hey folks, I'm trying to set up a DNS to resolve some of my own addresses within my LAN. My addresses are served by a DHCP machine that is not a DNS, and that I can not change. The addresses are predictable, though, so I'm content for them to statically entered in my DNS. I followed the step-by-step guide at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=a46cbec8a28cf695a7fdcb05fc967dc6&t=236093 but I didn't get all the results I was hoping for. My DNS will resolve upstream addresses (ie. google.com), but it does not handle my local LAN hostnames - which isn't something the guide addressed in great detail, and further googling hasn't yielded much for me. I was hoping I'd fare better here. Attached are my named.conf.local and my zone files (mylan.local.db and the reverse lookup file for 192.168.1). My files drift a little from the examples from the link above - I've been experimenting with changing certain things - but all my results have been the same. I'm hoping that my machine (mylan-220) will resolve to its address 192.168.1.61 -- mylan-220 is the DNS itself, as well. However, I get the following results: $ nslookup mylan-220 192.168.1.61 Server: 192.168.1.61 Address: 192.168.1.61#53 ** server can't find mylan-220: NXDOMAIN $ nslookup google.com 192.168.1.61 Server: 192.168.1.61 Address: 192.168.1.61#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: google.com Address: 64.233.167.99 Name: google.com Address: 64.233.187.99 Name: google.com Address: 72.14.207.99 I've tried making subtle changes to the zone files here and there, restarting bind after every attempt (sudo /etc/init.d/bind9 restart), but the results are the same every time. Can anyone recommend anything I might have missed, or can someone see what I've done wrong? Thanks. -- "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." -- Thomas Paine