dns at home

[Michael Butash]

Caching bind server install is I think as easy as "apt-get install 
bind9" still on ubuntu (behind a firewall mind you).  I run a pair of 
bind servers, but mostly because I run some internal domains at home to 
keep track of various server instances and devices.  My good old dns 
servers still run on 8.04, so been a while.  :)

Another option is dnsmasq running on your client box.  I do this on my 
workstation for significantly improved responses from even my own 
servers (my esx boxen tend to be fairly slammed all the time these 
days).  You essentially point your resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1 first, and 
leave others as backups, and dnsmasq caches locally off those other 
servers.  Should help performance issues past the first hit without 
needing dedicated servers.

-mb


On 10/03/2012 01:43 PM, JD Austin wrote:
> Heh!  Like minds think alike :)
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:39 PM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com
> <mailto:kitepilot at kitepilot.com> <kitepilot at kitepilot.com
> <mailto: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>
>             <mailto: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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