From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QtnNV-0001fB-R5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:10:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBD4C21C1F1; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834B821C1F4 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so1275329wyg.40 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:09:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=RIDVNJM4AtxfOLUy0eJCPbScIposLSjhmk44hv4YXag=; b=OuJWi4Ufcq6d9vqMD2NCpi+s8vw9HLYhkb0eZJuf35f0MoyHIMLHaV2Ssz+mCnRdeR FMCXRjbf3ySw5ZV4hRpdB0kUtIM1Q6WIl/kMgIxzBozxjGuzoPE9OT0FU0R4aFHVYy4a X74RhscBL7qCPTCgZ0J66bOsh2dGuoxQk4gcA= Received: by 10.216.169.205 with SMTP id n55mr1230540wel.53.1313615356602; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-55.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p49sm1037106weq.31.2011.08.17.14.09.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:09:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Running HTTP and DNS on same machine Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:08:55 +0200 Message-ID: <1348288.bdNIif9y8Z@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck-r2; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5efd2fdab5ea6ddac0681b7e3432cf3f 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