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Host your own DNS or use a DNS specialist company?

drmike

drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
Neo said:
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.
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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.
 
GM2015

GM2015

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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.
 
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drmike

drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
GM2015 said:
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.
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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/
 
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GM2015

GM2015

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drmike said:
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
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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

drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
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.
 
DomainBop

DomainBop

Dormant VPSB Pathogen
GM2015 said:
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.
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try:

Code: 
rm /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind.conf
 
GM2015

GM2015

New Member
drmike said:
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/
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DomainBop said:
try:



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

VpsAG

New Member
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.
 
W

web-project

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

fm7

Active Member
drmike said:
No penalty or find for violating RFCs :)  Just more expected downtime with the SPOF (Single Point of Failure).
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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.
 
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retrack

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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.
 
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HostServ

New Member
We are still in the testing stages with our DNS plans. We are trying a few different ways including CloudFlare and cPanel DNS. We are trying to bring speed and availability to the table.
 
WiredBlade

WiredBlade

New Member
JahAGR said:
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.





 
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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.
 
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