> Just to counter all of the scary stories, Yeah, i'd like to counter too. While the implications of getting it wrong are serious, technically its quite simple. I run my own DNS, and use a couple of free secondaries (http://www.twisted4life.com and http://www.everydns.net).
The upsides of running your own DNS is that you learn the ins and outs. So, if the DNS is for business that will loose money if you stuff it up, then i'll tend to agree with the naysayers, but if its a home domain then go ahead. And if you don't have a home domain, get one as a learning exercise and once you're mastered that you can re-consider if you want to move the business domain. Re: choice of server, I chose BIND as its what the companies I have worked at use, both ISC BIND and QIP's port of it. djbdns may be technically superior (eg code separation into different binaries) but its not as if BIND is very problematic these days. I havent bothered with chrooting BIND for a long time, but that's only on internal only DNS or my home DNS. For business internet facing DNS I probably still would, or use something more modern like Solaris sparse zones.
