We are currently using the DNS of our ISP but I would like to setup our own in house DNS server so that we could manage local names, and in short use this in house DNS server instead of .hosts file on all of our computers.
I would like the DNS server to resolve DNS only to certain IP's (so this way I could filter internet access in a way, by providing DNS resolution only to domains that are of use to our business and accordingly to IP's -something like openDns) I know I could setup a transparent squid to do filtering, but I've been interested in setting up a local DNS server and could not find the necessary resources online.
I am interested in a Unix, Debian, friendly app (Windows is acceptable also).
Best Answer
I'd recommend PowerDNS highly, if you just want a no-frills recursing DNS server to enable Internet usage, pdns-recursor requires close to zero configuration to be used on a local network. I use it on our FreeBSD server on the office, and basically, I just installed it, added the server's IP address to
/usr/local/etc/pdns/recursor.confand started the service.If you want to provide your own DNS information, PowerDNS has some very powerful features, mainly in its ability to use a relational database as backend, which makes it a lot easier to make some sort of web interface or configuration system, and also makes it a lot easier to do replication, since you can just use the database server's replication system instead of AXFR or similar things.