Even if you use a dns server with 5000ms response times, after the first response you go back to normal speed, getting a dns server closer to you, will not make the site faster or lower your latency.

Knot DNS and NSD here. No database, just straight zone files.

More RAM gives you more room for caching though. PowerDNS has a packet cache which makes responses even faster.

the internet) and i put ... i dont remember some dns provider doing load balancing, just basic no failover or anything, but that was me testing, my recommendation, its best to use cloudflare or some

As mentioned, you can easily override DNS records with BIND and make a private log file for those requests.

When I did this I just told my central DNS server to resolve the individual hostnames to their IPs, there never was any logic for the TLD specifically. For example server1.eri would resolve to a priva

How about Adguard home with DNS rewrite?

No need for DNS servers - just use a hosts file, and possibly a script to re-download the hosts file daily.

be wrong. Setting up a completely different DNS universe is pretty straightforward but superimposing on the existing one may not be.

FYI a dns server barely takes ram, the way they work has been basically untouched on the last few decades and you don't really need much ram for that

geocast dns servers with many different maps. The Maps take up memory but do not use much disk or transfer so VirMach works well.

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+1 This is what I use. PowerDNS is great and PowerDNS-Admin is pretty good too.

I have ISPConfig with 2 small slave DNS-servers. ISPConfig master server is NS1 and another ones are NS2&NS3. Slave servers are small, cheap 512M VPS. ISPConfig master shoud be 1024M, if you d

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Use a VPS, with Apache reverse proxy ON, you can self-host to hide your IP. Use cloudflare for DNS, forward IP to your VP, and then forward it to origin IP. thus your origin IP will be hidden. Note: a

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Torguard has been around for quite some time, first time I heard of them was in 2014, I think they had a Memorial Day Sale. VPN, proxy, smart DNS for ~3 Euro a month.

Yes, set the A record for mail.yourdomain.com, the Mx record for your domain, then the spf txt record. These should all be in the cpanel dns thing so you can copy paste to your own dns manager

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