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

[Michael Mol]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Wed 17 August 2011 17:23:41 Michael Mol did opine thusly:
>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:56 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?
>>
>> ISC bind is the de facto standard for DNS servers. I haven't
>> administered bind on Gentoo, but on Debian, most of the problems I
>> run into come from how Debian packages and updates configuration
>> files.
>>
>> I'm not running DNS servers in any major production capacity; I've
>> got a bind server at home linking my home domain and my employer's
>> work domain across a VPN, and updated dynamically via a dhcpd on
>> the same server. It's also serving as a caching recursive resolver
>> for my home network, which was *really* necessary when I was still
>> on AT&T. (The DSL link was dropping packets every now and again,
>> and it's a PITA when that happens to DNS queries)
>
> You're running an auth server and a cache on the same machine?

Split across a couple views, but yeah. And no recursion allowed on the wan side.

>
> At a minimum they should be on different interfaces and preferably in
> chroots. Otherwise all manner of $BAD_STUFF happens.

Hm. Interested.

echo $BAD_STUFF

(or URI)

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