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Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by rsync on Friday January 26, 2018 @12:10PM (#16240843)
Responding to several comments in this thread RE: what is the point of doing this ...

The point of running your own email and dns server is so that you are a peer on the network.[1]

This is important and is becoming lost in the current era of Internet adoption.

By many measures the Internet is the largest cultural and commercial force in the world today and by an accident of history, the researchers at (D)ARPA gave us a network that allowed normal citizens to be peers on the network.

Don't lose this.

[1] As opposed to, for instance, the telephone network. You can own your own domain and perform the first level of network interaction on your Internet systems, but the analogy on the phone network (owning your own phone number and controlling the first touch from other networks) by creating a CLEC is administratively and financially ($100k +) impossible.

Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by digitalsin on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:09PM (#16243303)
You hit the nail straight across the head. It's staggering the number of people relegating so many things like mail and DNS to a handful of companies becoming too large to fight against, or force to be wholly transparent, and everything else that goes along with that. It's truly scary and it doesn't have to be this way.
Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by siegecraft on Friday January 26, 2018 @02:38PM (#16242207)
I think calling it peer is misleading/imprecise, since in the context of the internet peer/peering refers to the interconnection of two networks, having your own AS, running BGP, etc.
Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by rsync on Saturday January 27, 2018 @01:38AM (#16245143)
"I think calling it peer is misleading/imprecise, since in the context of the internet peer/peering refers to the interconnection of two networks"

That is what peering agreements are but I believe in the broader context of the Internet, any routable IP address can, and should be, considered a peer:

"Each layer has one or more protocols for communicating with its peer at the same layer."[1]

[1] TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, p.3

Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by Santosh83 on Friday January 26, 2018 @12:21PM (#16240932)
I get where you're coming from but wouldn't being a proper peer on the Internet imply that you would need some kind of backbone access and be an ISP yourself?
Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by zrm on Friday January 26, 2018 @12:48PM (#16241181)
Comcast has a huge network but none of their customers are only talking to each other, they're talking to Verizon's customers and Google and Facebook and Amazon. Everyone has to interconnect with everyone else regardless of how big they are.

All it takes to be a proper peer on the internet is a public IP address.

Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by bpicolo on Friday January 26, 2018 @02:05PM (#16241956)
My ISP rotates through ipv6 addresses now (and frequently, at least several times a day). Makes that tough
Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by takeda on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:01PM (#16243254)
That feels like assholish thing to do. The great thing about IPv6 was that there's enough of them that everyone and everything could get one. If it changes it defeats that purpose.
Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by robocat on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:53PM (#16243550)
Browsing using a static IPv6 (or IPv4) that is unique to you is terrible for your privacy.

Randomly reusing the same limited set of IPv6 addresses would help privacy a little.

Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by tir on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:03PM (#16243600)
I'm sure for a mere $25 more a month they'll provide a static address.
Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by toomuchtodo on Friday January 26, 2018 @03:53PM (#16242818)
Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by zrm on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:38PM (#16243490)
That isn't much help for running your own DNS server though, since it's is a bit of a chicken and egg problem then. It's also hard to run a mail server on a residential connection because most of them block SMTP.

Fortunately there is another alternative, which is to get your public address from somewhere other than your local ISP. Some VPN providers offer a static IP or you can set up your own VPN to a VM on any cloud host and forward incoming traffic back over the tunnel.

Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by Spivak on Friday January 26, 2018 @01:54PM (#16241850)
Nope, all you need is a public address, some technical know-how, and the will.
Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by kevindqc on Friday January 26, 2018 @12:32PM (#16241031)
Maybe once net neutrality goes down the drain
Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by adreamingsoul on Friday January 26, 2018 @12:24PM (#16240959)
No.
Re:How and why I run my own DNS servers by danjoc on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:32PM (#16243454)
You're not running your own mail server without rDNS and that requires your ISP. This guy is talking about running a dynamic IP, he's not getting rDNS for that. Without rDNS, your mail is assumed spam and does not reach destination.

Also, not available without business class, at least on my ISP, is port 80. You won't be hosting many web properties if Joe user types in yourdomain.com into a browser without the leading https://, which nobody does anywhere. If browser makers defaulted to https, I'm sure the ISP would fix this glaring hole in their non-business class plans promptly.