Josh Luthman wrote:
Has anyone tried running bind9 on the Hobbit box itself and having
it hold cache locally?
I do, and it works very well. I'm using the caching-nameserver RPM from Red Hat, so choose the appropriate version for your OS and use it. You'll definitely see a reduction in DNS lookup times.
It's still worth understanding the lookup failures you are seeing--try adding "--debug" to the bbtest-net command in the [bbnet] section of hobbitlaunch.cfg and check out bb-network.log for more details.
Tom