Remembering which DNS software I used
August 09, 2023 —
Nico Cartron
Follow-up of my article on the web hosting I used, let's focus on DNS this time!
My domain
I bought the ncartron.org domain in November 2002 (so more than 20 years ago, time flies!), and as I'm a DNS guy, I made a few changes in those 20 years!
(You can check my article on the web hosting I used here).
History
I didn't write down all the changes I did, so most of the below will be off the top of my head :)
Clearly I thought I would have a hard time finding the changes I did, but fortunately there's a website which tracks all the NS records changes: WhoISrequest.
- 2003:
- Gandi (initial domain creation),
- then moved to Agarik (my employer back then)
- then to ns1/ns2.ncartron.org - powered by Bind back then
- 2007:
- Changed back to Gandi
- 2015:
- Changed to ns1/ns2.ncartron.org as Primary - again, still using Bind
- and ns1.esgob.com, which was an Anycast DNS service provided for free by Nat Morris (see Nat's excellent RIPE presentation)
- 2017:
- Removed Esgob (Nat discontinued the service)
- Added Gandi as secondary
- Added ns3.cartron.ovh to start playing with Knot DNS
- Changed ns1.ncartron.org to PowerDNS
- 2017-2020:
- Mostly adding/removing secondary DNS providers
- Since 2020:
- Stuck to ns1.ncartron.org (Hivane, running PowerDNS) and ns2.ncartron.org (OVH, running Knot DNS)
Wrap Up
Quite a few DNS changes in 20 years - now a bit more "stable" but this will likely change this year, as I want to play a bit more with dnsdist :)