This guide is for experienced UNIX/Linux/BSD users who just want to quickly try out MaraDNS

MaraDNS acts as both a recursive and an authoritative DNS server. In other words, MaraDNS can both be used to speed up the internet, and/or serve domains that you may have.

To try out MaraDNS as a recursive nameserver is easy:

It is also possible to set up MaraDNS as both an authoritative and recursive name server with the same IP:

Look in doc (in particular, the tutorial), or read the relevant man pages for more information on how to set up MaraDNS.