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- JakeMcMahon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+48Just because the title doesn't have the words "Amazing", "Extraordinary" or "AJAX", doesn't mean you should instantly troll the comments. It gets to the front page becuase people digg it. As the old adage goes, "if you can't say anything nice at all, don't say anything at all.".
- Smiegel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26Most of the Internet
- expatiom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Over 70% of Name servers on the Internet use it.
- stoops, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16My FreeBSD server in my basement runs BIND for my whole network soo...
- Zaitsevs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Very informational. Thank you.
- KageKonjou, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Pretty comprehensive. Not bad.
- s1rk3ls, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I use BIND on 3 of my own servers, and have it running on 3 leased servers I use. I have also used Djbdns in the past... (as well as Microsoft's DNS server, but I'm not proud of that)
Yes, it's an old article, but the fundamentals are still the same - and it's good reading for someone who wants to actually learn what they are doing and how it functions beyond the point-and-click of some web interface.
So, obviously you don't use BIND... What DO you use? - kortiz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13damn, Nachoes got owned, heh
- jakepaulus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You sure can learn it on digg. Check out this video I made of how to do it: http://cbt4free.org/videos.php (scroll down to the Linux DNS Server video). (sorry for the self-promotion, but I hate when people say RTFM because TFM often sucks or is hard to understand for a beginner.)
- Trenton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Very nice little howto, thanks gray kessler! I have been needing to know how to set one up on my linux box, just never got to it, but I think I may use this when I have time.
Hey bud (verucasalt), It's interesting when it was submitted a day ago, and it has 929 diggs. Sorry, I just wanted to let you know almost 1000 people think it's interesting, and you don't. Not to mention how badly burried your comment is. - ax0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Despite being written close to ten years ago, it's still very useful information. I've been running my own DNS with BIND for quite a while. I've tried others and BIND had it's share of problems back in the day.
Proof that old info isn't always useless. - MikeMacMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I think this is extremely interesting. This is the TECHNOLOGY section of digg.
- nkassi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What about reverse lookup ? Some ptr also would be important.
Nic - nkassi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@expatiom is right as of 2004. 15.5% is done by TinyDNS (djbns) another Unix based DNS server and only 6% for Microsoft DNS. Check out :
http://mydns.bboy.net/survey/ - mbateman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is a great tutorial explaining how DNS works but I didn't see anything about how to set up a DNS server.
Did I miss something? - ccunni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i've actually wanted to read something like this for a while now. very interesting really
- robomason, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Since you mentioned Linksys routers, might I also add that the DD-WRT alternative Linksys firmware for WRT54G routers comes with DNSmasq. It's a fantastic firmware for the routers, and lets you do all sorts of neat stuff like boosting signal strength and actually enabling local DNS. Local DNS lets the router act as a DNS server for all machines it provides DHCP for, and forwards all other requests to the "real" DNS servers out there in the big 'ole Intarweb. I didn't want to set up a full DNS server for my small home network, and DD-WRT + DNSmasq proved to be the perfect solution.
I believe this was on Digg before, but I thought it was worth a mention here.
Link: http://www.dd-wrt.com - creeptick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Actually, it's not as simple as it appears, especially when you start talking about multiple access points into your LAN and redundant DNS servers (that might also be involved with loadbalancing via round-robin resolves). Plus, there are differences in the way different DNS software handle subnets... Win2k3 DNS server is not as intuitive as one might hope.
I like seeing these DNS tutorials posted, but I wish they went in depth a little more with some more complex examples, and also addressed how to get your isp to perform reverse ip lookups into your LAN... - thomasknowland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2over my head, but i'm getting there
- griz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Damn, only a block button, wish there were a way to mark users as lame.
- dhakbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you understand how DNS works, it is trivial to know what is necessary in order to get BIND set up on your own.
- nkassi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you want a great book on it try to find DNS and BInd by Cricket Liu & Paul Albitz. It's published by Oreilly. Awesome book for everything about DNS.
Nic - nerdie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Meh. Bind/Named is to complicated for the average user. It's best if you used a web-based DNS hosting provider such as EditDNS.net or ZoneEdit.com
- findhostcoupons, on 03/21/2009, -0/+1Good tutorial, useful information for domain beginners!
- therw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've always thought about setting up my dns, but never really had the time to research it properly. Please don't just post back "search it on google," some of us don't have all the time in the world to search for things that would be nice but aren't needed. This article helps out quite a bit, thank you.
- tehfink, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i vote for djbdns (tinydns & dnscache). smaller, more efficient, more stable, and safer than bind. there are packages for most distros.
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html - ipstacks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1BIND is a great DNS server no doubt, but if you are running DNS for a smaller site DNSMasq is a good choice too. It allows you to add hosts via the /etc/hosts file (which used to be the way the Internet worked until it became obvious that keeping a current hosts file shared among so many users wasn't practical). Also it provides a DHCP server if you want. From the web site: Dnsmasq is included in at least the following Linux distributions: Gentoo, Debian, Slackware, Suse, Smoothwall, IP-Cop, floppyfw, Firebox, LEAF, Freesco, fli4l, CoyoteLinux, Endian Firewall and Clarkconnect. It is also available as a FreeBSD port and is used in Linksys wireless routers and the m0n0wall project.
- daedricx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0usefull... but im still confused.
- gorkish, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2So do you work for UltraDNS or something?
They always call up and try to sell me DNS service with one of their selling points being that they don't run BIND... OK but I do; how am I supposed to interoperate? - bradleyland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm not sure if I'm reading you correctly, but your ISP can't do reverse lookups to your LAN. The IP ranges specified for private use are just that, private use. How would they perform reverse lookup for 192.168.1.xxx when there are literally millions of people using that IP range on their networks?
The solution is to roll your own DNS, then create your own local zone for reverse lookup inside your subnet. If you're using MS servers, all your client machines should be pointing exclusively to the domain controllers for DNS anyway, so this should be a non issue in that department. If you're not using MS servers, configuring forwarding and using your internal name servers for lookups will solve that problem as well. - darkroastbeans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome! I'm a web programmer and DNS has always been a little cryptic for me.
- user123, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Yeah this has been posted before. Its really not even that great of a "tutorial".
- spamdies, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1wasnt this posted just last week, and that was like the 100th time this year.
- sholdowa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I sort of switched off when it started talking about HOSTS.TXT. Given that is was posted under unix/linux, it was superseded before even I started using unix.
- LucidHawk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Thanks for the article OLDER THAN JESUS, FORMED AT THE NEXUS OF TIMESPACE AT THE BEGINNING OF ALL THINGS!
- rhettnyedotorg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1..for me to poop on.
- jaymzz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Wow, and I thought I was behind the curve when I did this for myself in Windows NT 4 in 1998...
- dezent, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0are you for real ? everybody with a brain use bind.
- donkeyking, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Well If I thought Howto's made it to the front page then I would be posting all day long. How lame is this. If you don't know how to setup BIND by RTFM then you arn't going to learn it on Digg. LAME and DUPLICATE
- MrEcho, on 10/12/2007, -27/+4Old, and isnt that great for n00bs.
-digg - mattcaffeine, on 10/12/2007, -31/+3A 10 year old article is hardly news.
- thatsiebguy, on 10/12/2007, -42/+3What is so damn hard about setting up DNS? Point the registrar to your server and add a few A records, big deal.. We don't need to keep posting DNS How-Tos on Digg..
- Nachoes, on 10/12/2007, -46/+4who's still using BIND anyways?
- SpikeX, on 10/12/2007, -49/+5Wow... As if we didn't already know what DNS was, now we have this tutorial to help us.
Marked as lame. - verucasalt, on 10/12/2007, -107/+2Wow that is interesting. OR NOT!
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