I occassionally have similiar issues. I do 2 things. I have a local DNS
server that forwards to OpenDNS. This allows me to fiddle with things as I
want, and keeps me off the ISP's horrible DNS services.
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Derek Trotter <
expat.arizonan@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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@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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