[newbie] DNS and Mandrake 7.2

[Martin, Debi (REO)]

Hi, 

I have installed Mandrake 7.2 on a Pentium III pc and need to configure the
machine as a DNS
server. 

Can anyone here help ? 

I've configured the DNS server settings in Linuxconf but if i type nslookup
on the command
line, an error message appears that says 'server unavailable'. Its not even
using the 5 second
timeout before the error message comes up. 

any help would be really appreciated. 

d