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 1Qtnb0-0002Yc-LQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:24:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C7BE21C2FF; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:23:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F21021C266 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:22:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (173-8-169-73-SFBA.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.169.73]) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C6DE79FAFBC9 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:22:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E4C310D.9010408@badapple.net> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:22:21 -0700 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Running HTTP and DNS on same machine References: <1348288.bdNIif9y8Z@nazgul> In-Reply-To: <1348288.bdNIif9y8Z@nazgul> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ecc6591c2296061c315545bf8376b2f9 On 8/17/2011 2:08 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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. Exactly what Alan said. It's not worth it and no registar will let you do it on one IP. kashani