A complete guide to spinning up your own DNS server.
Odds are, if you have a computer and you find yourself on the interwebs Googling away, you have heard the term ‘DNS’. The fact is that without DNS none of this would be possible: You wouldn’t be able to read this, you wouldn’t be able to read information about the newly released OnePlus 7 Pro (I’m not excited about it, you are) and you wouldn’t be able to read how in the world the Tampa Bay Lightning got swept in the opening round of the 2019 NHL Eastern Conference Playoffs (I’m not bitter about it, you are). In fact, none of the internet or its many information and services would be unavailable without DNS.
A ‘Domain Name Server’s primary function is to translate easily re(adable)memorable names, such as Amazon.com into an IP address that are nearly possible to remember en masse. It provides other information, as mentioned in some of my previous articles, such as (but not limited to) mail domain information, as in which server to send mail to, and what IP addresses are valid to send said mail (SPF). But without the simple A or AAAA record to translate name into IP address, we’re not here reading this now.
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