Re: [gentoo-user] Running HTTP and DNS on same machine

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
> I currently use a free service to host the DNS records for my website,
> but I'm thinking of running a DNS server on the same machine that runs
> my website instead.  Would that be fairly trivial to set up and
> maintain?  If so, which package should I use?

Just to counter all of the scary stories, I recently (within the past
month or so) installed bind for the first time and set it up after a
few days of googling around and reading docs. It seems to be working
properly and securely, but I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a large
amount of dumb luck, finger-crossing and hand-waving involved on my
part to get it working. I have some familiarity with editing DNS zone
files (on other people's servers) so I wasn't going into it completely
blind.

I don't know if I'd call it "fairly trivial", but with howto's and
google at your fingertips you should be able to get it set up properly
if you really want to.

Usually the web-based DNS management by your domain name registrar or
hosting provider are good enough for most "personal domain" kind of
usage (like mine). In my case there was something that their web-based
editor didn't support (TXT records on subdomains or something like
that), and mostly because I just felt like trying to do it myself.
Since they are my personal domains, nobody else will suffer if I break
everything. Others are in the (lucky? not so lucky?) positions of
administering systems where things actually have to work right the
first time and all the time. :)