Best LightWeight DNS Server

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• dmmcintyre3 Member

  January 2012

  NSD uses BIND's zone files and uses very little RAM. I have NSD, unrealircd, znc, anope and pptpd running VPS which uses ~25mb ram.
• Naruto Member

  January 2012

  You could use Cloudflare and if you don't like the protection it comes with, disable it.
• andrew Member

  January 2012

  Yes, I recommend NSD too.
• titanicsaled Member

  January 2012

  +1 for cloudflare.

  A great free dns service even if you don't want use their webiste protection/acceleration
• glober Member

  January 2012

  +1 for NSD
• clarity_64 Member

  January 2012 edited January 2012

  Can someone tell me how to generate a hmac-md5 secret? I can't get it to transfer the zone to the slave.

  Here is the error code that I am getting:

  Jan 24 09:09:52 ns2 nsd[31772]: xfrd: zone example.com received error code REFUSED from 1.1.1.1

  The master is throwing this error:

  Jan 24 09:09:50 ns1 nsd[20313]: query tsig unknown key/algorithm
  Jan 24 09:10:01 ns1 last message repeated 5 times
  Jan 24 09:11:33 ns1 last message repeated 6 times
• dannix Member

  January 2012

  aptitude install ldnsutils
  ldns-keygen -a hmac-md5 -b 160 -k yourdomain
  
• clarity_64 Member

  January 2012 edited January 2012

  How do I use that output?

  ldns-keygen -a hmac-md5.sig-alg.reg.int -b 160 -k example.com

  Gives:

  Kexample.com.+157+54305

  Do I just paste that as the secret?

  Edit: I googled, and I think is a little more complicated that I had thought. I am just going to use NOKEY for now. I am just wanting to create a something like this.

  key:
                      name: "sec_key"
                      algorithm: hmac-md5
                      secret: "Secretgoeshere"
  
• Amfy Member

  January 2012

  I used TinyDNS, a really simple and lightweight dns server. I used a own openvz-container for it and it only needed about 8mb RAM!
  Configuring is relative simple, installation is not total easy but it is possible
• TheHackBox Member

  January 2012

  I use PowerDNS as its very stable and it uses BIND zone files. If you really wanted it to, it can use MYSQL also :P
• dannix Member

  January 2012

  Check the content of the *.private file you've got, there is a Key inside.

  Then in the nsd.conf you just need to make an entry like this:

  key:
     name: somekeyname
     algorithm: hmac-md5
     secret: "HereYouCopyTheContentOfTheKey"
  
  # and then in your zone:
     name: example.com
     zonefile: example.com.zone
  # on master
     notify: IP2 "somekeyname"
     provide-xfr: IP2 "somekeyname" 
  
  # on slave
     allow-notify: IP1 "somekeyname"
     request-xfr: IP2 "somekeyname" 
  
  
• ksx4system Member

  January 2012

  MaraDNS of course :-) but not old 1.x releases, only 2.x makes sense.
• drmike Member

  January 2012

  @ksx4system said: MaraDNS of course :-) but not old 1.x releases, only 2.x makes sense.

  Why?