Newbie question: DNS & other services on a Linux box?

[Matthew Thompson]

> [Is this possible?] Specifically, I want to run FTP, WWW and DNS. [Can
this
> all be done from one box] or [would the name look-up get caught in some
> sort of loop?]

Perfectly possible. I do all of the above, Samba, Sendmail, SSH, MySQL and
IMAP on a machine at home. A P166 at that :o)
 
> Also, does anyone know of any good beginners guides to setting up your
> own DNS server?

http://www.nominum.com/resources/faqs/bind-faq.html IS a nice starting
point.

Also try the ORA book http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dns3/

M at t :o)