At $WORK we lost a disk in the RAID1 of one of our external nameservers, and it rekindled an occasional discussion of migration from ISC BIND to PowerDNS. PowerDNS has separate authoritative and recursive servers, and doesn’t seem to natively support views or split-horizon the way BIND does, but …

I needed a better solution for Dynamic DNS than dyndns.org for something, so I set about setting up DDNS through my BIND9 servers. I found a number of very helpful blog posts, including nsupdate: Painless Dynamic DNS, Painless DDNS part 2: the server, Secure dynamic DNS howto and A …

Yesterday I finally began moving DNS for my sites from GoDaddy to my own in-house system of master/slave BIND9. While both DNS servers are currently at the same location and on the same WAN connection (heck, they’re beind the same router, too), so is all of the rest …