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