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How should I handle DNS on a home server? (meganice.online)
submitted 11 months ago by i_am_hungry@meganice.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've been using Hetzner for some time, but now I want to host everything myself at home.

DNS was easy with Hetzner, just point the domain to Hetzner's nameservers, and from there to my server.

How are people doing this for home servers? When there's not access to something like Hetzner's nameservers.

Is there a free/cheap nameserver I can use to point at my home server's IP?

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[–] majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

If this is for DynamicDNS, I host my DNS at cpiudflare for my domain and use a script which performs a lookup every 15 mins. It uses CF's API to then update the record if it changes.

For DNS resolution, I use pi hole quad9 resolvers

Edit: sorry, just re-read and realised your talking about DNS hosting for a domain. honestly I use my Cloudflare or my domain provider. Given a single IP is a point of failure, it makes sense to have multiple NS on different networks/IPs. You also have to take into account Glue records and while not required, reverse DNS is also good. If you have Dynamic IPs it's not worth it since glue records will need changing and those are manual each time

[–] camilobotero@feddit.dk 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I have a dynamic IP, and it’s being a pain in the @$$ for me. I simply cannot use my domain to access my home server because of this.

Is your script available on GitHub or similar platforms?

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