>> With such a setup, your host should correctly use your local `bind` >> server, and if you ever stop your `bind` server it should start using >> your ISP's server instead. And when you restart your `bind` server, it >> will switch back to using that. > That is not at all what I am trying to accomplish. I simply want > resolv.conf to be left alone. As I do not have resolvconf even > installed, I don't think I am asking too much.
Don't worry, you can ask whatever you want and I won't judge if it's too much or too little: It's not like I (nor anyone else for that matter) have to provide you with what you want, anyway. I just gave you a solution to your underlying problem, which *uses* the infrastructure rather than fighting it. I won't force you to use it, tho. Stefan