Real hackers run their own hand-coded DNS server. Seriously, though, I run a DNS server on the same machine that runs my [small] web server, etc. There is an a

Real hackers run their own hand-coded DNS server. Seriously, though, I run a DNS server on the same machine that runs my [small] web server, etc. There is an argument to be made that you need failover machines for DNS, but my counter-argument is that if my web server machine is dead, no amount of DNS redundancy is going to fix anything.