dns at home

[JD Austin]

Heh!  Like minds think alike :)

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:39 PM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:

> 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<http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/network.html>
> ET
>
> 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 <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
>>>     --     "One mistake up here and it's half a day out with the
>>> undertaker!"
>>>     - Fred Dibnah
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