From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 22:28:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C35516A4D7 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:28:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1032343D31 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:28:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mag@hamletinc.com) Received: from [192.168.12.99] (c-24-19-27-240.client.comcast.net[24.19.27.240]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2005021022284701500e1422e>; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:28:47 +0000 Message-ID: <420BDFBC.2020807@hamletinc.com> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:27:08 -0800 From: "Mark A. Garcia" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040519) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kilim References: <20050210221321.GA6387@phenix.rootshell.be> In-Reply-To: <20050210221321.GA6387@phenix.rootshell.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS virgin X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:28:48 -0000 kilim wrote: > Now that I've registered a certain domain through godaddy.com I > wish to set up my own DNS server. In the Godaddy's web interface > there is a way to set two new DNS server. Can I just put one of the > server to be my DNS primary leaving out the secondary ? Or can I > leave their server to be my secondary ? > > I'm asking this because I'm on DSL with a static IP, but don't want > to have two server just for DNS. > > By going the this way, with only one DNS server, this wouldn't be > proper and safe right ? > > If you want your own primary and leave godaddy as a sec, you'll need to have zone transfers axfr between your pri and godaddy (sec). Both pri and secondary need to have sync'd dns records. I do not know if godaddy even offers secondary zone transfers service or not. I know everydns.net does (free). I'm sure other free dns services do too. Also, this is under chapter 4 in the dns/bind book. Having one primary dns server is a risk, but perfectly doable. IMHO, if this is for your own small personal space to host just a single dns it would be perfectly fine. I know many folks who just run one dns server personally. Now for more mission critical stuff, it's best to have 2 dns servers or more. Not only for handling the potential swath of requests, but to at least have one server available all the time to serve requests. Keep in mind DNS is getting more and more critical for the simple user nowadays, considering all the anti-spam blocking features that actual verify the email senders domain for MX records. It's up to you... Cheers, -.mag