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 1Qtpv2-0008O9-Bc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:53:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B95FB21C26C; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:52:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E353221C082 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:51:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxi39 with SMTP id 39so1605266vxi.40 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:51:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wGHq2k3n8DIN0submv0ka8bgTMfelqE1WPytc1cz9EI=; b=wKAxgkd96jnpuf6UTsFaYh6e198y5iIa9cvEknt4n5j0C6zrgWE5guth1QqGRF1i/c 1iHP2AKPlMxebA46pcNmTslt0vPODwogMaQ9QYRU4HfblshasSRJzX2XJKPdO/gR1AU5 hbNSdFRkppvey6Ywj/tYU134+UZ6IaWelmvNc= Received: by 10.52.22.2 with SMTP id z2mr55652vde.253.1313625115148; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:51:55 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.160.1 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:51:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Paul Hartman Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:51:35 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Szm-IZo_nDwTtAsTOeQQUwdejgg Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Running HTTP and DNS on same machine To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1ec570600f557b0f4356778c5e3b053f On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:56 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. =A0Would that be fairly trivial to set up and > maintain? =A0If so, which package should I use? Just to counter all of the scary stories, I recently (within the past month or so) installed bind for the first time and set it up after a few days of googling around and reading docs. It seems to be working properly and securely, but I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a large amount of dumb luck, finger-crossing and hand-waving involved on my part to get it working. I have some familiarity with editing DNS zone files (on other people's servers) so I wasn't going into it completely blind. I don't know if I'd call it "fairly trivial", but with howto's and google at your fingertips you should be able to get it set up properly if you really want to. Usually the web-based DNS management by your domain name registrar or hosting provider are good enough for most "personal domain" kind of usage (like mine). In my case there was something that their web-based editor didn't support (TXT records on subdomains or something like that), and mostly because I just felt like trying to do it myself. Since they are my personal domains, nobody else will suffer if I break everything. Others are in the (lucky? not so lucky?) positions of administering systems where things actually have to work right the first time and all the time. :)