Host your own DNS or use a DNS specialist company?

[drmike]

I use Rage4, moved away from PDNS clustered with MYSQL Replication, had enought Nodes for that but DDOS protection was a concern.


But now since Rage4 revoked Unlimited from Sponsored Accounts (early Promo Accounts/Free Paid like 12 bucks per year) and moved it to 100mio request no idea what happens if someone request from ther servers 120mio times just to piss me off.

Rage4 has been pretty cheap, however lots of complaints about the lookups used and wild fluctuations.


I like their provider buy in model.  Wish more people would buy into it / offer.

 

[Neo]

Yeah its cheap, you can get a account for 12EUR a Year for private use from Prometeus.net.

 

[GM2015]

I'm all for self-hosting services, but for the life of me can't figure out powerdns. I've tried it a few times on VM-s and the server never answered to dig.


I use cloudflare for everything for now.


Indeed, domainbop's comment of failure.


Imagine they drop, lock and purge all free accounts in 30 minutes.

 

[drmike]

I'm all for self-hosting services, but for the life of me can't figure out powerdns. I've tried it a few times on VM-s and the server never answered to dig.


I use cloudflare for everything for now.


Indeed, domainbop's comment of failure.


Imagine they drop, lock and purge all free accounts in 30 minutes.

Been years since I had PowerDNS going here... Was never simple.


Perhaps someone can share their install notes or point to working tutorial?


This is a simple single instance install with MariaDB:


https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-powerdns-with-a-mariadb-backend-on-ubuntu-14-04


Simple single server Raspberry Pi install:


http://workshop.botter.ventures/2013/10/01/how-to-setup-a-dns-server-with-powerdns-on-raspberry-pi/


Single server CentOS install:


http://www.tecmint.com/install-powerdns-poweradmin-mariadb-in-centos-rhel/

 

[GM2015]

Been years since I had PowerDNS going here... Was never simple.


Perhaps someone can share their install notes or point to working tutorial?


This is a simple single instance install with MariaDB:


https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-powerdns-with-a-mariadb-backend-on-ubuntu-14-04

That's what I've followed on Debian 8(mostly ubuntu 14.04 tutorials work, sometimes you have to modify file path and package names) and there was no response coming from bind when queried with dig. I've set bind to accept queries from 10.0.0.0/8 and localhost. It never answered despite reboots/service restarts.

 

[drmike]

Weird situation, always something overlooked.


How about binding it in config file to 127.0.0.1 and querying directly against that.  Be sure the process is indeed running.  I forget if it gracefully fails / notifies you when things go wrong.


Let me see if another clean tutorial out there that is maybe a tad better.

 

[drmike]

Little better tutorial with this one.. using plain old MySQL... Some debugging towards the end of it:
http://www.unixmen.com/how-to-install-powerdns-on-ubuntu-14-04/

 

[DomainBop]

That's what I've followed on Debian 8(mostly ubuntu 14.04 tutorials work, sometimes you have to modify file path and package names) and there was no response coming from bind when queried with dig. I've set bind to accept queries from 10.0.0.0/8 and localhost. It never answered despite reboots/service restarts.

try:

rm /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind.conf

 

[GM2015]

Little better tutorial with this one.. using plain old MySQL... Some debugging towards the end of it:
http://www.unixmen.com/how-to-install-powerdns-on-ubuntu-14-04/

try:



rm /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind.conf

It was surely something in the config directory in the default config files that stopped pdns from replying. Now it's working, except for the resolver's returning nothing! But I'll look into it.


Thanks for the link and ideas.

 

[VpsAG]

For the average user I would recommend using Cloudflare DNS. There is no better option. If you want more specialized design, you are not the average user anymore.

 

[web-project]

We do host our own DNS, setup in different locations and different nodes, very easy and uptime is great compare to just one server.

 

[fm7]

We do host our own DNS, setup in different locations and different nodes, very easy and uptime is great compare to just one server.

1. "just one server" violates RFC


2. Nameserver uptime doesn't matter

 

[drmike]

1. "just one server" violates RFC


2. Nameserver uptime doesn't matter

No penalty or find for violating RFCs  Just more expected downtime with the SPOF (Single Point of Failure).

 

[fm7]

No penalty or find for violating RFCs  Just more expected downtime with the SPOF (Single Point of Failure).

No penalty for violating anything.


You want 2+ nameservers because route is the most frequent point of failure.


BTW a server may be "down" for a cache nameserver and "up" for a client application running elsewhere.

 

[web-project]

1. "just one server" violates RFC


2. Nameserver uptime doesn't matter

tell us where did I mentioned the one server? if the nameservers located in different networks and different node as I mentioned in post above!

 

[retrack]

Off course Cloudflare and Route53 are good providers but I was amazed that DnSimple did not get quoted. It is a rather effective service and like the name suggest simple and with nice documentation.


Bottom line, my answer is use a provider, self hosting DNS can bite very hard if you do not know exactly what you are doing. DNS failures are one of the most common sources of outages.

 

[WiredBlade]

This is my exact DNS setup. 3x cheap VPS with PowerDNS + Poweradmin. Really works well.


In the past I had used BuddyNS. Service was fine but I was always riding the limits of the free tier.





 

Do you have a blog or website where you share your experience of hosting your DNS using PowerDNS? I made some efforts but was not able to get it to work properly.

 

[Walnuthost]

Better use dns like cloudfare for it speeds up your website.

 

[Nogics Technologies]

I am using Cloudflare and quite happy with it. No more "PAGE NOT FOUND" errors for static pages during very small downtime such as reboots etc.

 

[PowerUpHosting-Udit]

That depends on what you are trying to do and what you are trying to achieve. 


Your DNS:
Complete control over your DNS, you can make your changes, have multiple failover setups and won't cost you additional to set up a private DNS


Using Premium DNS:
Depends on which one you are choosing but can take of things like DDoS protection, Anycast DNS, CDN, etc. all integrated, so you go through less hassle. 

It depends on what you are trying to achieve and based on that you can make a decision.