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

Dewey Hylton plug at hyltown.com
Tue Feb 12 18:50:45 EST 2013


> From: "Alexey Toptygin" <alexeyt at freeshell.org>
> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 4:17:37 PM
> 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

agreed whole-heartedly, though i wouldn't touch bind with a 10-foot
pole. i've been using djbdns for years and can't imagine any reason
i'd ever want to stop doing so ...



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