What's your purpose for doing so? I'd say if you're doing it for a thesis or an experiment on DDoS / DNS amplification attacks and how to prevent them, then I think it's a great idea and you're in the

'Any' public service is usually a 'bad idea'. There are always people out there that get a kick out of abusing stuff. Whether it's a gameserver, DNS server or even a mis-configured mod_proxy apache mo

If someone could shed some light on how to tunnel DNS requests I can finish my tutorial and submit it to LowEndBox...... I have everything covered so far I believe. The initial server setup (with Secu

Few providers ban the use of recursive DNS queries now...

Yes, it is. The idiots at hackforums discovered dns amplification attacks a few months ago and now they're attacking my customers often, most are from public open resolvers.

Its a bad idea to run a public dns on a lowendbox?

I opened up Chrome and visited 'chrome://net-internals/#dns' and on that page, I pressed the button to clear the 'Host resolved cache'. Also, the Internal DNS client is disabled... but still I can vis

Your browser also has it's own DNS cache. Try visiting pages you haven't visited before.

I've setup my 'own DNS server' for use with OpenVPN, so that I do not have to use Google's DNS/OpenDNS or any other DNS server. I've used this tutorial to set it up: http://library.linode.com/dns-guid

I never said they can't profit, I just personally don't think its worth my time (personally). Now using Rage4 DNS's cPanel addon (assuming they're staying on free plans) then that takes care of DNS.

Beyond that, for that price range I'd suggest going with a crapton of VPS's and doing some geoip dns crap instead of going for a big central SPOF.

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First off, I’d like to apologize to @deanclinton, he had purchased a yearly VPS with us for his awesome DNS project he was starting up. I have contacted him about this. I believe there was one other L

you're doing it wrong if your DNS is using ~12gb of bandwidth.

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A waste of traffic? How much traffic do you get on your DNS servers? I mean like ~12 gigs a month is how many queries?

Anycast is a concept at the IP level afaik, not at the application level (DNS). If so, then doing anycast DNS would be absolutely pointless...

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From my knowledge authoritative DNS are queried in random. If one fails, recursive DNS would query another authoritative DNS server.