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self-host NS
Hi,
I want to host my own nameserver because why not. I know about PowerDNS and NSD from NLnet labs. What are some other good options and what do you persons recommend? Don't know how anycast works yet but geodns (giving IP based on the location) is also a funny thing.
What else can I do so that people from the US connect to the US vps and from the EU connect to the EU vps.
Bye
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Bind9 is what ive used in the past.
If you are not familiar you would want to go with PowerDNS, as it offers nice CLI and (third party) GUI.
nsd + nsd-api, prem stuff.
Forgot about bind9.
I currently have 2 vps's and want to add a 3rd. Might try all 3 out at some point but PowerDNS with the third part https://github.com/PowerDNS-Admin/PowerDNS-Admin admin panel seems to be nice.
Which one of these 3 options offer metrics to see how many requests it resolved and stuff like that?
Looks like with powerdns you can do that and parse it out to Graphite : https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/metrics.html
You can make some pretty cool stats!
you need a MariaDB / MySQL cluster for that on all 3 nodes, plus a vpn interconnecting them, if you don't wanna bother with setting up TLS on the database nodes.
If you have just 2, this is not an option.
Oh, en grafana for cool looking graphs.
PowerDNS is a great choice - problematic features like DNSSEC and slaves automatically picking up new master zones are easy to setup
I went down the GUI rabbit hole for it, but now I just use the CLI.
pdnsutil edit-zone
does pretty much everything you'd need a GUI for - tidying, verification, automatic serial bumpingSounds like a solid option, my friend used nsd but switched to powerdns, might just give that a shot first.
Update: Installed PowerDNS and PowerDNS-Admin via one docker-compose.yml, all worked except for one problem that I fixed with a workaround. Happy to say it works and thanks for your valuable input.
You can do that with KeyHelp WebPanel
https://www.keyhelp.de/en/