On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01ttouch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a VPS and i want to set up a DNS server. > first of all do i need a secondary NS? why? no money for second VPS... It's not necessary from the technical point of view, but almost all registrars require at least two servers for reliability -- if there's only one server and it goes down, your entire domain (with subdomains, mail, web, everything) goes down. However, there are several free secondary NS services: - https://dns.he.net/ - http://freedns.afraid.org/ - http://www.buddyns.com/ - http://www.zoneedit.com/ - Others, google. Some VPS hosts, such as Linode, also offer secondary NS for customers. (Most of them also offer primary NS, but it's usually managed through a crappy web UI, so let your own server be primary.) > also can ANYONE explain me the zones in detail? i've read the wiki a lot of > times... If you could please ask something more specific... -- Mantas Mikulėnas
