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 1Qtqh3-00059Y-UL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:42:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29A0521C2B9; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:42:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3008521C27C for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:40:08 +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 865119FAFBC9 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E4C5F61.109@badapple.net> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:40:01 -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: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fecc8e090f5c72e41fd5ea27293430b6 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