do I need to configure a Caching Server
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I am setting up a SOHO PHP web server on my business cable account that
allows for running servers. This is a product for small home bound
businesses.
I have BIND working. The website I am hosting :
http://www.keiththewebguy.com/
On 2021-06-19 01:14, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 18.06.21 um 20:28 schrieb techlists at phpcoderusa.com:
>> I am building a home PHP hosting server for learning. I have a
>> commercial connection to the Internet so no blocked ports and my ISP
>> allows servers.
>
> unless you are hosting a authoritative zone aka domain on your
> nameserver it don't matter what your ISP allows
>
> if you are not hosting any official zone you shouldn't have the port
> open to the world because nobody but bots and attackers will ask your
> server anyways
>
>> I believe I only need a Primary Master Server. Is this the case?
>
> what is your usecase to begin with?
>
> if it's just internal hostnames for your LAN maybe dnsmasq is the
> better solution because it can use simple hostfiles like /etc/hosts
> and forwards everything else to your ISP nameserver
>
>> My question is, do I need to configure a Caching Server?
>
> there is nothing to configure, if you ask your named for something
> it's not authoritative it either forwards or doing recursion (depends
> on the configuration) and cache the result based on the TTL
>
>> In /etc/bind/named.conf.options:
>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> forwarders {
>> 1.2.3.4;
>> 5.6.7.8;
>> };
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Do I need to set the forwarders?
>
> no
>
> let named do it's out-of-the-box job which is recursion - i can't
> think of any usecase where i do the work setup a nameserver and then
> forward everything to a crappy ISP server
>
> after stop using forwarding all random dns problems where gone and
> never came back
>
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