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

[Igor Partola]

I also as well too. bind9 is not too terrible to learn to configure.
In addition to running my own resolver, I also include a .lan zone. This
way I can give local names to important hosts on my network, such as
nas.lan, router.lan, etc. This also makes it really easy to deal with
IPv4/IPv6 dual stack.

I run bind on a Raspberry Pi as it seemed to crash too often when running
on my router (on top of DD-WRT).

Igor

On 02/12/2013 04:17 PM, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>>
>