Hello Selfhosted community!

I know not many folks actually host their own DNS, but for those that do: do you use any hosted secondary DNS servers? Meaning delegating slave servers.

What features would you be looking at in such a service?

Reason asking: I am looking to build a free service that would allow users to register their zone , choose geographic location and our servers will do the secondary part for it. Though limited on a free tier - say 1-3 zones (domains).

It will include a management panel.

Edit: Currently the Name Servers do support DNS over TLS/QUIC/HTTPS.

  • NikStalwart@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I do, indeed, use slave DNS servers, in fact, I’m currently in the market for a second independent provider.

    What features am I looking for? Honestly, a competitive amount of POPs and ability to accept AXFR in. I don’t need much more than that.

    Oh and pricing: I’m looking for something on the level of AWS or cheaper. I’ve tried approaching some other players in the field like ns1 and Hurricane Electric’s commercial service and those are quoting me $350+/month for < 100 zones and <10m req/month. No thank you.

    • Tivin-i@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Thank you! What would such a competitive amount would be? 2 per each region covering east and west? or something more distributed such as 1 in a radius of 1,000km?

      Regarding the original post, yours seems a commercial case, which probably will not be supported at the start.

      • NikStalwart@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Thank you! What would such a competitive amount would be? 2 per each region covering east and west? or something more distributed such as 1 in a radius of 1,000km?

        I certainly don’t need anything as robust as 1 per 1000km. I currently utilize ClouDNS as my main slave DNS provider. ClouDNS give me POPs in the capital city of every economically-relevant country.

        I don’t necessarily need something that robust for a backup slave provider. Something like 2 POPs per continent would be more than enough, say South Africa, North Africa, Sydney, Singapore, 1-2 in Europe, 1 in JP/KR, 2 in USA, and one in South America.

        That should give decent-enough coverage.

  • OhMyForm@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I use Technitium the ideal set up, is put one in one region in one data centre and then another in another region in another data centre. This way the whole Internet would have to break before your website. Breaks this plus a strategy of good time to live policies Infrastructure should stay up forever.