On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:03:35 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote:

> I think I had bind configured as 'authorative',
> still have a lot of files in /etc/bind/zone/.
>
That would be the usual setup - its authoritative for the hostnames
within your LAN and recursively looks up anything else by contacting the
set of nameservers to told it to use as the next port of call. Just make
sure that internal domain names don't match anything outside. My external
domain name is xxxxx.org, so I set my copy of bind up as authoritative
for xxxxx.lan and this has been trouble-free for a long time now.

> Will have to read up on bind.
>
Have a look at unbound too. You may prefer it. As I said, I haven't used
it but have seen it recommended as a 'less buggy' replacement for bind.

https://www.unbound.net/

I wouldn't care to say whether its any easier to to configure than bind
and it seems to use the same "domain" and "domain.zone" files as bind and
puts them in a similar "chroot jail".


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