A > options { > listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; }; Won't this restrict to listening only on localhost? No other hosts will be able to connect to port 53 on this machine. > listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; }; > directory "/var/named"; > dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; > statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; > memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt"; > allow-query { localhost; }; And this will only allow queries from localhost -- Kathryn http://womensfooty.com