Choosing a DNS server (for installation)

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nikitasius2012-11-21 10:55:23

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nikitasius, 2012-11-21 10:55:23

Good afternoon!
There was a need to move away from using third-party DNS servers on the Internet.
In this regard, you need to raise your own. A Debian6 server will be given under this.
One of the requirements is IPv6 support.

There are (mostly) 2 popular servers on the Internet: BIND and PowerDNS.
Which server is best to choose (IPv6, does not require much resources, GUI / WEB admin is not required).
There are alternative solutions, I will be glad to hear opinions (including negative ones).

The DNS server will be used for several domains and only for them. Not for the local network (with caching and other things).

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avalak, 2012-11-21
@nikitasius

NSD (Name Server Daemon). It is used by 3 root servers. Bind-style configs. Can only work as a responsible server (cannot cache). Economical.

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smartlight, 2012-11-21
@smartlight

+1 for BIND.
There are a lot of docks and mana about him.
I think 80% of DNS servers are BIND.

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vosi, 2012-11-21
@vosi

I switched to PowerDNS quite a long time ago.
reasons:
- a large number of backends, starting from rel DB, continuing with all sorts of nouescuels, ending with pipes ... even bind zones can act as a backend
- it is very easy to build a master-slave conf (there are 2 options, or the backend itself will worry about it (for example, db in the master/slave) - in this case, you don’t need to configure anything at all, or a couple of settings in the configuration file), while you don’t need to worry and do something, as in a bind, so that a new zone on the master is created on the slave , in powerdns it's all automatic.
- fast, reliable, consumes few resources (I haven’t crashed in 2 years, a separate openvz container is allocated for dns, which eats up to 50 meters (the entire container) and does not think to eat it yet)
, however, there is a fly in the ointment ... configuring geo dns- a - not quite trivial, although there is a geo backend in the test ... it needs to be screwed with handles and it is not yet reliable ... I saw somewhere how to set it up with pipes ... but, in truth, here the niem does not differ from the bind ... there too - not quite elementary

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Konstantin Frolov, 2012-11-21
@nitro80

PDNSD?

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nikitasius, 2012-11-21
@nikitasius

Thanks a lot for your answers!
I read about NSD (I had never encountered it before), it is very similar to the minimum that I need + it’s good in terms of resources.
I will opt for it.

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Alukardd, 2012-11-22
@Alukardd

nikitasius ,
In general, there are many DNS servers, of which there are also Unbound that are especially distinguished - this is from the creators of NSD, only with the possibility of recursive work and caching, there is also YADIFA - like NSD it works only in authoritarian mode (the .EU zone plows on it).