dns at home

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

I would save myself the grief of running a DNS and set my resolv.conf to 
8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 

See:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/network.html
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Derek Trotter writes: 

> Since I signed up with my ISP I've had trouble with dns.  Sometimes urls 
> take a long time to resolve.  Other times I get errors saying the url 
> couldn't be found.  Sometimes a page won't load properly because parts of 
> it come from other urls and those don't resolve. Calls to tech support are 
> a waste of time.  So I want to host dns at home. 
> 
> On 10/3/2012 13:14, James Mcphee wrote:
>> No, this is somewhat arcane, but depending on what functions you want, 
>> can be quite simple.  DNS works by reference, so you don't load the 
>> world's DNS onto your server.  That server will still need valid external 
>> DNS servers. 
>> 
>> I prefer BIND, myself.  I have friends that enjoy PowerDNS.  What exact 
>> uses are you trying to get out of it? 
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:expat.arizonan at gmail.com>> wrote: 
>> 
>>     I'm thinking of running dns at home on my linux box(kubuntu 8).  I
>>     don't want a caching server.  Would this be difficult to set up?     
>> Would this consume a lot of bandwidth? 
>> 
>>     Thanks 
>> 
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