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On 8/17/2011 5:18 PM, Adam Carter wrote: |
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>> Just to counter all of the scary stories, |
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> Yeah, i'd like to counter too. While the implications of getting it |
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> wrong are serious, technically its quite simple. I run my own DNS, and |
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> use a couple of free secondaries (http://www.twisted4life.com and |
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> http://www.everydns.net). |
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> The upsides of running your own DNS is that you learn the ins and |
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> outs. So, if the DNS is for business that will loose money if you |
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> stuff it up, then i'll tend to agree with the naysayers, but if its a |
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> home domain then go ahead. And if you don't have a home domain, get |
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> one as a learning exercise and once you're mastered that you can |
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> re-consider if you want to move the business domain. |
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Alan and I would have had a vastly different take on this if it had |
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been phrased as "I want to setup DNS at home for learning and |
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convenience." Instead the email in my mind read as, "I'd like to |
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introduce a single point of failure into my system and I'd like to do it |
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with something I don't fully understand to boot." |
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Yes, I have a rich and cynical inner monologue. This is well known. |
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That said if you want to setup Bind (which I prefer) the Gentoo wiki |
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has a decent how-to. I wrote the original incarnation 7-8 years ago and |
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people have kept it updated. It looks mostly correct though I can see a |
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few places where it needs some clean up. Even with the cruft it is light |
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years ahead of the official Gentoo Bind doc and includes a number of |
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config entries to make troubleshooting and running ISP type name servers |
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easier and safer. |
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http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/BIND |
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