Until now I used that nice feature offered by hosteurope to use an auto-dns service, but somehow I’m missing the freedom right now so I had to setup a DNS server.
I decided to use TinyDNS and djbDNS. A neat alternative to BIND & Co.
sudo apt-get install djbdns
Afterwards we need to create some users and to configure the tinydns with our ip address.
adduser --no-create-home --disabled-password --force-badname Gtinydns
adduser --no-create-home --disabled-password --force-badname Gaxfrdns
adduser --no-create-home --disabled-password --force-badname Gdnslog
sudo axfrdns-conf Gaxfrdns Gdnslog /etc/axfrdns /etc/tinydns 83.169.43.97
sudo tinydns-conf Gtinydns Gdnslog /etc/tinydns 83.169.43.97
Now we are going to put tinydns into our service directory to start it.
ln -s /etc/tinydns /etc/service/tinydns
ln -s /etc/axfrdns /etc/service/axfrdns
sleep 5
svstat /etc/service/tinydns
svstat /etc/service/axfrdns
And there you are. To customize the configuration you can switch to
the /etc/tinydns/root directory and use the scripts inside. But remember
to run make afterwards so that tinydns-data gets the changes.
If your secondary nameserver does not pull changes automatically you
will need a [little helper script](/downloads/dnsnotify) that notifies
the nameserver to initiate a zone transfer.
I added that script to my /etc/tinydns/root/Makefile to run it
automatically when I compile the new tinydns data.