Simple DNS server (was Re: [nzlug] mdadm and lvm on a live distro?)

[Nevyn]

On 3/10/07, Robin Sheat <robin at kallisti.net.nz> wrote:
> On Saturday 10 March 2007 03:15, Nevyn wrote:
> > *lmao* well I guess so... a gui to add a line to two text files at the
> > very least. That'd be worth it right?
> 'gedit'? The thing is, if you're editing DNS records, you either know what you
> are doing, or you're going to break things (trust me on this :). So it seems
> reasonable that the barrier to entry should be a little higher.
>
> Also, I'd like to think that many of the people who have the ability (as in,
> own the address space) to enter reverse-lookup entries probably don't do much
> of it by hand anyway, and have a database somewhere that produces the bind
> files, or something like that.
>
> Remember that a person running a DNS server that points to a couple of hosts
> can't do the reverse DNS of those hosts, so in most peoples cases, that part
> of it isn't much good anyway.

I suppose that's my biggest barrier in learning DNS. Scope. I'm still
looking at a DNS server from my own needs which is a DNS server
running simply for my internal network with full authourity.