From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Running HTTP and DNS on same machine
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:23:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiAshP0rjvje3ht7LKmbbm9nnpG5RPoEkmDu9U-bzOXt3w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw0FU_zdDNAe4VazPMM=AJ04h7ZkfmHQK=Qxt2GGV_swVg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Grant <emailgrant@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)
If you want to get into managing your own DNS, and if there was
anything in that previous sentence you're unfamiliar with, I highly
recommend O'Reilly's DNS & Bind: 5th Edition before you commit any of
your services to your own server.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596100575
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:wq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-17 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-17 20:56 [gentoo-user] Running HTTP and DNS on same machine Grant
2011-08-17 21:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-17 21:22 ` kashani
2011-08-17 21:43 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-17 22:08 ` kashani
2011-08-17 22:51 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-18 0:50 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-08-17 21:49 ` Grant
2011-08-17 22:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-17 21:23 ` Michael Mol [this message]
2011-08-17 21:53 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-18 1:35 ` Michael Mol
2011-08-18 18:17 ` Florian Philipp
2011-08-18 18:36 ` Michael Mol
2011-08-19 7:17 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-17 23:51 ` Paul Hartman
2011-08-18 0:18 ` Adam Carter
2011-08-18 0:40 ` kashani
2011-08-18 1:56 ` Grant
2011-08-18 17:26 ` Jarry
2011-08-18 17:39 ` Michael Mol
2011-08-18 18:22 ` Grant
2011-08-18 18:38 ` Michael Mol
2011-08-18 18:47 ` Jarry
2011-08-18 21:48 ` Stroller
2011-08-18 0:35 ` Pandu Poluan
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