Personally if I were you I'd do my own DNS as well,
especially if you're
going to be connected 24 x 7. So what you're doing is creating your own
"POP" (Point of Presence)
I've got to agree here, while it's unlikely your ISP's DNS will fail,
having your own should allow for faster access I would think. OTOH, who am
I to talk. I've got web, FTP and mail going, but have been to lazy to
setup DNS. But then I lean towards one mondo Alpha running VMS for most of
my stuff (actually most of the exterior stuff is on one Alpha running
OpenBSD).
I see you've not mentioned a firewall, are you going to have all this
sitting naked on the internet? I *STRONGLY* recommend a Firewall running
OpenBSD!!!!!!!!!! Look at it this way, I'm a VMS type, not a BSD type, and
my firewall runs OpenBSD.
Zane
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