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Ha ha ha... Perhaps we should have an "Ask HN: Do You Host Your Own DNS?" thread ;) Running BIND is very simple, and there're lots of how-tos and some excellen
by johnklos 4y ago
Ha ha ha... Perhaps we should have an "Ask HN: Do You Host Your Own DNS?" thread ;)
Running BIND is very simple, and there're lots of how-tos and some excellent O'Reilly books, too.
You can run your own DNS on a VPS, on a machine on a static IP, or even on a residential address, if it doesn't change too often. If it does change, you can run your primary on your home and have a public machine be a secondary.
It opens up so many possibilities :D
- smcn 4y agoThanks, I appreciate that a lot! Guess this is my project for over Christmas.
- thunderbong 4y agoMail-in-a-box is seriously awesome. I was super impressed by how easy it maid emauk hosting for me after hear all the FUD about housing your own email. My suggestion is to get a new domain and then try it with that. Once everything works, and your IP reputation is in the clear, you can port your other email domains as well.
- smcn 4y agoI appreciate that a lot, thank you!
- zimpenfish 4y agoI do! tinydns and dnscache all the way (although considering alternatives that aren't BIND[1]); only problem I've had was the auto-SOA generation which the .is people didn't like (they want each NS to have the same SOA) but since I generate the data file with a script anyway, it was an easy tweak to make that SOA a known value. [1] Historical issues with running at an ISP in the late 90s and the various security issues since.