Thanks Scott, trust me I have dug deep, but maybe not deep enough. The material you have given me (link) was my first reference to initiate my project of getting bind installed in chroot. My problem is getting help to edit this file to emerge bind within chroot. http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/net-dns/bind/bind-9.2.2-r3.ebuild Dave >RTFM: >http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Chroot-BIND-HOWTO.html > >google is you friend: >search string "bind chroot linux howto" > >Try it sometime. > >Gentoo can't be all that different from other Linux distros. The >above doc should be all that you need. > >Scot