Jon wrote: > First question is: how complicated is this? To give you an idea of my skill > level, I find web servers easy, but MTAs very complex. Where would > installing, configuring, and managing my own DNS fall on that scale?
DNS itself is not terribly complex when you're just doing simple things like MX records and pointing www.domain.com at an IP address. Once you get your head around the terminology and the zone file format for the software you're using, it's relatively easy. In fact, it's probably easier than dealing with Apache. Even using BIND as the name server software, it's not terribly difficult. I would recommend giving a recent edition of DNS & Bind a read before starting out though, just so you are fully up on terminology, etc. > Second question: would *you* bother doing it, or recommend just sticking with > Zone Edit? The advantage of sticking with someone like Zone Edit is that they have bigger infrastructure and are less likely to get knocked off the net by various things that might occur. They've likely got redundant hardware, data centers, and so on. Not to mention people who keep on top of security updates to the software and so on. If you decide to go it on your own, you'll need to keep on top of security bulletins and so on for the DNS software as well as the other stuff you run. And, of course, there's one more thing you have to fix if it breaks. Only you can do the cost-benefit analysis. Personally, I'd do it myself but then I know exactly what I'm doing. YMMV. -- William Astle finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further information Geek Code V3.12: GCS/M/S d- s+:+ !a C++ UL++++$ P++ L+++ !E W++ !N w--- !D !M PS PE V-- Y+ PGP t+@ 5++ X !R tv+@ b+++@ !DI D? G e++ h+ y? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
