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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I currently use a free service to host the DNS records for my website, |
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> but I'm thinking of running a DNS server on the same machine that runs |
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> my website instead. Would that be fairly trivial to set up and |
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> maintain? If so, which package should I use? |
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ISC bind is the de facto standard for DNS servers. I haven't |
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administered bind on Gentoo, but on Debian, most of the problems I run |
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into come from how Debian packages and updates configuration files. |
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I'm not running DNS servers in any major production capacity; I've got |
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a bind server at home linking my home domain and my employer's work |
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domain across a VPN, and updated dynamically via a dhcpd on the same |
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server. It's also serving as a caching recursive resolver for my home |
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network, which was *really* necessary when I was still on AT&T. (The |
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DSL link was dropping packets every now and again, and it's a PITA |
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when that happens to DNS queries) |
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If you want to get into managing your own DNS, and if there was |
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anything in that previous sentence you're unfamiliar with, I highly |
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recommend O'Reilly's DNS & Bind: 5th Edition before you commit any of |
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your services to your own server. |
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http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596100575 |
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:wq |