[TriLUG] DNS providers: why bother? was Re: Email Problems

Matt Flyer matt at noway2.thruhere.net
Tue Feb 12 16:32:27 EST 2013


I've been using my own for years.  Eliminated most of the apparent service outages too.  Would have also made SOPA or other DNS 'solutions', not my problem.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt at freeshell.org>
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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:17:37 
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion<trilug at trilug.org>
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Subject: [TriLUG] DNS providers: why bother? was Re:  Email Problems

On Mon, 11 Feb 2013, Randy Barlow wrote:

> This was the primary reason I switched away from using TW's DNS, and one
> of the main reasons I would have wanted to use OpenDNS. Too bad. There's
> always 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4… for now!

Am I the only one here that runs their own recursive resolver? All I had 
to do was apt-get install bind9 and edit /etc/bind/named.conf.options to 
only listen on local addresses. Since it runs on my firewall, I only need 
one instance for my entire network, and I have dhcpd automatically tell 
clients to use it.

Why use some third party service that does who-knows-what sort of 
shenanigans?

 			Alexey


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