GoDaddy is a arguably the largest domain name register. Yet it does something which I am not very comfortable with - make profit off your domain names and does that without your explicit permission. Previously when you wanted to register a domain name you had to provide at least two domain name servers. With GoDaddy you can register any domain name without having to specify DNS servers for it. You are not even given the option to specify your own DNS servers. So how does GoDaddy supply the required DNS servers?

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Domain Name Servers resolves domain names to IP addresses. However how can you resolve the domain names of the domain name servers? For examples our domain name servers are at ns1.taragana.com and ns2.taragana.com. They resolves the domain names of all our sites like blog.taragana.com or stemcell.taragana.net. But how can we resolve the domain names ns1.taragana.com and ns2.taragana.com to their IP addresses?

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eBox platform provides a mini-debian installation along with its modules to allow you to provide and manage network services on your corporate network. The key capabilities includes support for multiple external network interfaces with load balancing, traffic shaping, transparent proxy, firewall, content filters, DNS (domain name server), NTP (time server), mail server, Jabber Instant Messaging server, SAMBA for file sharing, DHCP and more. In short it promise to be a one-stop solution for all network services needs for small businesses. Particularly I was interested in load balancing between multiple ADSL providers and traffic shaping capabilities. Here are my experiences with eBox platform.

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Round robin DNS is a simple way to load balance your servers. You can use it balance the load between multiple web / ftp or other servers. Each server has its own IP address. In round robin mode the DNS serves one of the available IP addresses in random order to the requester. The simplest way to implement round robin DNS is with A records in your zone file. For example my taragana.com.hosts file (zone file for taragana.com zone which is used by Bind name server) currently has the following entries: Full article (325 words) »

After the recent yum update, named failed to load. I tried searching Google without much help. The permissions were all correct and yet named failed to load. And then I found the simple solution.

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