<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 7:06 AM Tom Browder <<a href="mailto:tom.browder@gmail.com">tom.browder@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I have two remote servers: (1) one with one IP (used mainly for backups) which is planned to be an OpenStreetmap tile server and (2) one with five IP addresses used for serving my personal websites with Apache and planned to be a mail server.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Note I am currently running mostly static sites but am in the process of setting up more dynamic sites running behind a proxy on the apache server. Public usage is very light at the moment and probably will remain that way.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Question: Can I use one or both servers as authoritative bind dns servers, or should I get one or two dedicated servers for that purpose?</div><div dir="auto"></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yup, you sure can — in general the resources required to run Bind / DNS for “normal” usage is fairly small.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">YMMV if you are doing this for a large / popular name, or if your existing boxes are *horriably* overloaded, but generally it’s fine...</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If they are usable, is it preferable to have a unique IP instead of sharing with other services?</div><div dir="auto"></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sharing is fine. Having a dedicated IP address *might* be useful under DOS conditions (easier to ask your isp to null route an up than filter port 53), but not really important...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">W</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks, and Happy New Year!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Tom</div>
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</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in the first place.<br>This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of pants.<br> ---maf</div>