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run my own authoritative DNS (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago by johnnychicago to c/selfhosted

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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* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can use Bind or any other nameserver-server.

But this is one of the things you might want to reconsider. Setup errors might slip in silently and might be hard to diagnose. Complying to the standards like DNSSec and IPv6 on the nameserver might be a challenge without experience.

Next to that, you probably can’t register the domain itself without a third party, and I always advice to not use a different party for nameservers than the party that registered the domain.

Laat point I want to bring up, I would advise against combining name servers with other services, as it is crucial for operating the services, you are creating one giant point of failure. Keep it separated. Seperate hardware

That said, if you accept all these dangers, it’s technically doable. Open the right ports, configure the zone, setup master and slave, read up on glue records, register the name server if needed, setup DNSSec and set the correct name servers in the domain at the party you registered the domain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

and I always advice to not use a different party for nameservers than the party that registered the domain.

Why is that? I register most of my domains at Porkbun, but I usually use Cloudflare’s nameservers as they seem to support more record types, have more features, and have a better UI than most registrars’ offerings.