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Same thing happened with me... I still dunno what to use them for.. Other than crashing routers and turning them into DNS servers.

If you don't have your own, you can sign up at http://dns.he.net/, it's free and supports IPv6 PTR zones.

DNS is not just a single server, it's a forest. There are also multiple directions to DNS, so it's worth noting that a DNS server could be hosting more than the zones you are authorized to speak for

Noob question : How do DNS servers utilize more ram?

I was doing some testing on our own DNS setup using Power DNS and MySql replication and things are going nice. I noticed that some DNS providers provide multiple ip's for single name server , to make

Hi all looking for 2 vps's for dns servers in diverse locations

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the technicalities of hosting websites, email or DNS there is a simple solution -- install Kloxo.

* Clustered DNS

If "DNS Support" is checked when you add a domain/apache vhost, then sure it will be a problem. Otherwise it will be fine.

We also offer Geo Load Balancing at DNS level, so you can have installs in multiple clouds, and failover between them or global traffic direction between them.

* Reverse DNS

Like ip, dns, etc = the same as host.

I removed it, and rebooted, and the hostname was still there. Tinkered a bit more around with dhclient, and I removed the dns and domain name from the configuration, and the DNS servers did not change

I am using knot-dns (CZ.NIC) since more than 3 years. It is perfect :-) There is also YADIFA (EU.NIC), but configuration was way to complicated for me.

So basically I was looking for some "new" auth. dns server which could actually handle a lot of dns requests and then I came across KnotDNS (Here) .

* Free DNS hosting

Sadly this is an IP camera that has it's own dynamic DNS hostname hardcoded by the manufacturer.

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