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On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, stinga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On 17/02/09 19:16:37, Gordon Henderson wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, stinga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >>> Does anyone run there own nameservers and if so, do you have recommendations? >> >> I do. I'm sure there are others too... What are you after - the software I >> use (bind9), or recomendations for nameservers to use? >> > > software to use really, I could (and have) use bind9 but was wondering > about other solutions people might be using. Bind (Ought to be BIND, really - Berkeley Internet Name Domain, or named for short!) has been around for almsot ever, and is well understood so there is lots of documentation out there for it, and once you've setup the config file and the first zone file, it's relatively straightforward after that. If you want a copy of my config files and sample zone files, just say, but they're nothing special here. In a "parking" situation you can even just maintain one zone file and create links from the other one files to the 'master' zone file too... I do this occasionally: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 15 09:58 ddplan.co.uk -> ddplan.com -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 388 Nov 15 09:58 ddplan.com lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 15 09:58 ddplan.net -> ddplan.com It's really lazy though, but works OK. > I am doing some work for someone who has a horrendeous mix of 3rd party > people doing various bits of the registry and resolving requiring many > passwords that get forgotten, just trying to simplify his life a bit, he > also has about 60 domains (don't ask) mostly parked and pointing > nowhere. Migrating all the domains into the same registry is well worth it, but can be a costly exercise. I've done it in the past for companies who have had different departments register their own things left, right and centre without care of the central IT people. I use totalregistrations for all my domain needs - they provide a registration service, but nothing more than a very general purpose nameserver system, so I run my own nameservers. Other providers let you edit the zone files without the need to run your own nameservers. A couple of my hosting customers use 123-reg - who're not been without issues over the years, but have have been reasonably stable for some time now... (tempting fate!!!) Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html