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Old 24th July 2013
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There are two sides to DNS: "authoritative" and "recursive". Authoritative is when a domain you control is being asked "where is www.${yourdomain}.com?" by someone outside of your domain, recursive is when a machine on your domain asks your ISPs dns server "where is www.${someotherdomain}.com?", which your ISP may or may not immediately know. If it doesn't know, it either refers you to an upstream DNS server, or it asks upstream on your behalf.

It sounds like you're trying to setup an authoritative server (this is all the registrar really needs to know about), in which case jggimi's advice is what you're looking for.

If not, though, you can look into named as a recursive resolver, or unbound (my preference), or even a few others. The major use case there would be "I want to use ${ISP}, but ${ISP}s name servers suck...so I'll run my own recursive dns server and point it at the internet's root dns servers!"

This, I can tell you, runs nicely and is fun. You can do all manners of fun stuff when you run your own recursive (well, either recursive or authoritative) dns server.
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