configuring localhost as a dns server w/ linux

[Barry Margolin]

In article <3.0.6.32.19990806102331.007b8b50 at dreamwvr.com>,
dreamwvr  <dreamwvr at dreamwvr.com> wrote:
>hi Rick,
>        you still need to tell it what dns servers it will be 
>cahing info from.. ie. the dns servers of your isp. otherwise 
>it will not know where to cahe from:

Why?  He said he has root.hints configured, so his server will get
referrals from the root servers, and shouldn't need to go to his ISP's
servers.

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