Hi,

On 2 Nov 2001, at 9:34, Jon wrote:
> ok, I have a small network, the gateway runs a dns server which lets
> all the network know about each other.
> 
> Now I wish to connect the gateway machine to the internet via a modem
> (I suppose that doesn't matter)

if you use bind tell it to forward requests it cannit resolve to your 
ISPs DNS servers, make shure your DNS server does not answer 
requests from outside.

If you use DJBDNS, you need to tell dnscache to forward requests 
to your ISPs DNS servers.

HTH

mike