On Wed 17 August 2011 13:56:10 Grant did opine thusly: > 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?
The first question is Why? There's no real benefit, it's a huge amount of work for little gain, you carry the cost of increased traffic yourself, and if that host goes blip, you not only lose access to the web server but to the entire zone as well. Technically there's no good reason why you can't co-host web and dns. However, depending on your upper level domain and registrar, TWO dns servers may be a requirement (this is the norm) and you propose only one. Where's the second one going to be? Only one is a very bad idea indeed. Your last two questions reveal that this is not something you are familiar with already, so I highly recommend you investigate everything thoroughly and fully understand just what you are letting yourself in for before deciding. If you simply don't like your current DNS provider, then finding a different one you do like is quite simple. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
