any way to do this?

Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> B. Cook (bcookpoklib.org) wrote on 14 November 2006
13:21:
>  >How in dnscache you can preload the server you
want queries to go..
>  >
>  >can that be done in mara?
> 
> You can use upstream_servers instead of root servers.
If you configure
> upstream_servers all queries will go to them so that
maradns will just
> be a forwarder. Note that you cannot use both
upstream_servers and
> root servers (variable root_servers).
> 
> You can also forbid queries to certain nameservers
using the spammers
> variable. Additionally you can be authoritative for any
zones you
> want, provided that your server is not reachable from
the outside.
> This way you can build whatever you want for that zone;
it's explained
> in the tutorial.
> 

Hello and thanks for taking the time to write back..

(this list seems quite dead.. :( )

I was able to get what I was looking for from a combination
of dnsmasq 
and maradns.

#dnsmasq conf:

dhcp-leasefile=/var/db/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases
domain-needed
domain=adriance.local
expand-hosts
filterwin2k
group=nobody
listen-address=192.168.1.244
log-queries
resolv-file=/usr/local/etc/resolv.conf
server=/1.16.172.in-addr.arpa/172.16.1.1
server=/1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/192.168.1.3
server=/adriance.local/192.168.1.3
server=/adriance.poklib.org/192.168.1.4
server=/dcinfoport.org/192.168.1.4
server=/midhudson.org/172.16.10.2
server=/midhudson.org/172.16.10.4
server=/poklib.org/192.168.1.4
server=/poklibfriends.org/192.168.1.4
user=nobody

inside the resolv-file is a resolv.conf config and lists the
maradns 
server that I am using as authoratitive for some internal
domains and as 
the recursive resolver for the rest of the network.. so far
it's going 
quite nicely.

Again thanks for writing back..