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 1QtrXP-0002it-16 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:36:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1277121C321; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:36:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F4621C0B3 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxd23 with SMTP id 23so1244679fxd.40 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:35:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TK/PKPtIzFAu8CY8AJ7ccd4inxghE16J/G8DZX/uUDk=; b=xtYPO5ArlH50/k1ZF3ilyl9yzz3qVxCM/uvJ8l9WZ7YoMj8PWMuxO0lXyk922gQE9c KUoheG82qfU+dGNkRvSPAy6S+Ng+XZuZzufPHC6Q5NfwelGUChOkK2CsUjReAY+nkdbU URJxFBcWk84m1zNf23fyQS3WP55lf+JdQguo8= 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 Received: by 10.223.159.137 with SMTP id j9mr206834fax.64.1313631345273; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:35:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.104.83 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:35:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2014422.cuJOgXTDR9@nazgul> References: <2014422.cuJOgXTDR9@nazgul> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:35:45 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Running HTTP and DNS on same machine From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5eb2cf41da9e633782de2ab4adf2d9e6 On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Alan McKinnon wr= ote: > On Wed 17 August 2011 17:23:41 Michael Mol did opine thusly: >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Grant 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. =C2=A0Would that be fairly >> > trivial to set up and maintain? =C2=A0If 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) --=20 :wq