On 4/21/06, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First question is: how complicated is this? To give you an idea of my skill > level, I find web servers easy, but MTAs very complex. Where would > installing, configuring, and managing my own DNS fall on that scale? > I agree with William, if you can figure out Apache, you can figure out Bind. And as he mentioned, and pretty much anyone who's ever set up a DNS server will tell you, the O'Reilly book "DNS & BIND" is pretty much _the_ book to read. The BIND Admistrator Reference Manual, available at http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/ both online and in PDF format, is also very useful.
> Second question: would *you* bother doing it, or recommend just sticking with > Zone Edit? > I bothered doing it, mostly for educational reasons but also for cheapskate reasons. I only own a small number of domains, so what I do is run the master DNS server myself, and get free secondary service from www.twisted4life.com, www.xname.org, and my registrar. Yes, three secondaries is way overkill for my needs, but hey, I could do it, and it cost me nothing, so what the heck, why not. :-) Lots of places seem to charge for being the master server, but will be a slave for free, so it is of economic benefit to run the master yourself. HTH, Ian _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
