Wonderful guides. I tried the setup guide for Debian. I have a Debian system running apache & ntp. Next step would've been dns then mail server. I previously tried setting up dns on Debian (sarge) myself, following the docs and file comments so I ended up with a chroot'd bind. Didn't work, so I gave up on it. Then ran into your wonderful guides, and tried again. Just the dns part. Kept running into a permission problem, when trying to start bind. I probably got the permissions or ownership wrong in the subdirectories that need to be created for chrooting bind, but with some googling, I also found notes related to the error message about permissions when attempting to start bind and some bug in Sarge/Debian.

The error message is something like, failed to start, and then something about a permission problem. Don't have the log anymore since Debian Sarge removes syslog files after a week, and I de-installed bind, planning to try reinstalling it at a later date after removing the subdirectories.

Keep the guides coming. If/when I get it all working, I'll be sending a token showing my appreciation.

One more thing: The server currently running apache, I plan on using that as the mail server (light) and one of two dns servers. The second dns server will be located on someone else's subnet. The apache server serves multiple sites via virtual names. What would you name the hostname of the server? ns1@somedomain.com would be out, because that would become the domain name for each virtual web site as well, right? To use something like ns1@somedomain, then it would be suggested to use a separate box for dns altogether? Or is this still feasible?