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Hello --

I have my DNS with a cloud provider that I want to stop using, and was considering where to move it (a few domains with a handful entries each). At some point I was wondering if I should run it myself. I have two VPS' in different data centers with fixed IP addresses, and I read up a bit - seems like this is doable. I am not set on what software to use. I would like it to run in a container. Does anybody have any recommendations, positive or negative?

Thanks :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I recommend NSD or Knot for strictly authoritative servers. BIND is great too, but it is built to do both authoritative and caching DNS which makes it a bit too "big" for the task of serving only authoritative DNS data. You can definitely configure BIND to only serve authoritative data though.

I can't comment on running from a container, I've always worked with NSD/Knot/BIND building directly from source.