On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.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) If you want to get into managing your own DNS, and if there was anything in that previous sentence you're unfamiliar with, I highly recommend O'Reilly's DNS & Bind: 5th Edition before you commit any of your services to your own server. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596100575 -- :wq
