Re: Per server instance vs central / shared / redundant instances of BIND

2021-04-27 Thread Tony Finch
Grant Taylor via bind-users wrote: > > Do you think that per (mail) server instances of BIND are worth the additional > administrative overhead as compared to more central shared instances? Yes, that's what I did when I was doing mail things. There are a few reasons: reduce load on the shared

Re: [External] Re: Per server instance vs central / shared / redundant instances of BIND

2021-04-27 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
For me, I run one locally per data center with forwarders, etc. defined but for a "How to spin up your own mail server", I would likely just keep it to one per mail server. For someone more advanced, DNS is lightweight and anti-spam is very heavy.  So anything you can save on anti-spam

Re: Per server instance vs central / shared / redundant instances of BIND

2021-04-27 Thread Grant Taylor via bind-users
On 4/27/21 10:24 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Agreed on the OT and good subject change. :-) For me, I wouldn't bind DNS to the eth0, just another attack surface hence I would use local loopback. I think the main reason to bind to eth0 / LAN is for when there are multiple (mail) servers