Originally posted here by phishphreek80
SirDice: Wouldn't it be kind of pointless (outside educational purposes) to run your own DNS server on such a small network?
I use it for educational purposes but it also caches, forwards and is authoritive for a small domain for internal use at home. It includes things like www.mydomain.home, an MX record for mydomain.home and some records for all my (virtual) machines.


You have one more service running than really needed. You'd just be increasing your security vulnerabilites if you don't know how to properly and securely configure it.
Not really. This service is only available for internal clients (my own machines). It isn't accessible from the "outside".
(and I do know how to properly configure and secure it )