On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed 17 August 2011 17:23:41 Michael Mol did opine thusly: >> 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) > > You're running an auth server and a cache on the same machine?
Split across a couple views, but yeah. And no recursion allowed on the wan side. > > At a minimum they should be on different interfaces and preferably in > chroots. Otherwise all manner of $BAD_STUFF happens. Hm. Interested. echo $BAD_STUFF (or URI) -- :wq
