dns at home

[James Mcphee]

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 at 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 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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