Named and ppp connection question

["Chris (Ski) Kacoroski" <ski scenicsoft com>]

Hi,

I have a small network at home and run named and dhcp on my linux (redhat
6.2) server.  It works fine.  I have set up a script that allows my family
to connect to the ISP (not on demand so the kids do not conflict with phone
calls).  When the script runs the last thing it does is to restart the named
server to assure that it makes the correct connection with the isp.
Sometimes on a restart it works ok, other times it doesn't work correctly
and the only way I know this is nslookup comes back saying the nameserver
address is 0.0.0.0 instead of the address of my server.

Question #1: why do I end up with 0.0.0.0 as the dns server address
sometimes on restart

Question #2: is there a better way of doing this.  I need to have the
machines on my network point to the linux server for dns so they can see
each other (instead of pointing to the ISP's DNS server).

Thanks,

ski

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