Tag: dns

  • Fuck you, internet.

    For a few years I ran my own public DNS server. I liked it, great experience, I could easily connect all my host to a central and fast DNS, I avoided all those nasty ISPs who filter their DNS, and it was fast (not Google fast, but fast — I actually think Google DNS didn’t…

  • Bind mrtg stats

    Because I couldn’t find any that worked. (Dark blue: incoming queries, light blue: outgoing/recursive lookups) mrtg.cfg sample: # Bind Title[bind]: Bind Queries Target[bind]: `/etc/mrtg/bind-stats.sh` PageTop[bind]: <H1> Bind queries per minute on vm1 </H1> Options[bind]: growright,pngdate,nobanner,gauge,nopercent,noinfo MaxBytes[bind]: 50000 Ylegend[bind]: Queries/min ShortLegend[bind]: queries/min LegendO[bind]: Incoming Bind queries per minute LegendI[bind]: Outcoing Bind queries per minute Legend2[bind]: Incoming…

  • Public DNS server

    I have been running a public DNS server for private purpose (never liked my ISP’s DNS servers, and the root servers were usually located too far away (at least those with easy to remember IPs). Anyway, been testing it since this summer, and so far it’s been working great. the DNS server running on a…