When I first went looking for HOW-TO docs concerning installing Daniel J. Bernstein's djbdns on Ubuntu, I could not find such. What I did find was plenty of docs on how to download and compile Mr. Bernstein's djbdns code from source, however Ubuntu has very kindly created packages of everything you need for installing djbdns.

Finally I found this page http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/djbdns/ which gave a good solid and CONCISE configuration guideline WITHOUT elaborating on compiling djbdns. So I intend this to be a supplemental guide for Steve Litt's documentation. Specifically on that page, search for "Set up in the proper order" and that is the golden / CONCISE steps I am referring to.

First, install the packages needed for djbdns:

Note for Ubuntu 9.04: This version of Ubuntu did not start Mr. Bernstein's architecture (daemontools) service, though 9.04 installs it as a service. I had to manually start the service, and I did so in /etc/rc.local as follows:

With Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04, this workaround is not necessary as Ubuntu both installs and starts the service.

Then reboot the system.

Next, set up and test DNSCache:

Or you may hand edit for the last line... I prefer to do so myself rather than having perl do the editing. The file should look similar to this:

Next, on to setting up tinydns on 127.0.0.1

For this next step, Ubuntu has an omission in their packages of djbdns. Mr. Bernstein requires three ID's be created for use with djbdns, however Ubuntu only creates two of the three. For now, this single line of code will add the missing ID:

And please chime in on this bug report in the Ubuntu tracker: Gtinydns id not created, but two other id's created

Once the ID is created, you may proceed with the following command.

Then enable the tinydns service:

Finally, connect dnscache to tinydns:

And now you have a basic djbdns configured! Fill in your static zone information, run "make", and you should be good to go!