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["Jerry Pipes" <domains AT snewpy.com>]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the response.  See my comments below.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Koontz" <brian AT opennicproject.org>
To: <discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] Name server failure? - also Hardware 
Requirements?
> Both servers check out fine.  It sounds to me like your ISP might be
> redirecting port 53 access (Comcast, by chance?), and that it took some
> time for your DNS changes to propagate through to the other computers 
> (esp.
> if done at the router).  Browsers cache their DNS settings for quite a
> while.

I've since reconfigured my PC alone to use the OpenNIC servers, and 
everything seems to be working okay.

> A RPi would be great for a local caching server!  If you're interested in
> running a Tier 2, you'd most likely want a *nix-based VM hosted elsewhere
> to do this.

Is this how most people do it?  At some point, I'm planning to start my own 
TLD, so I would probably use the same hardware for both, right?

>  Processing and bandwidth requirements are modest.  The
> important thing is that you will want to run whitelisting and some 
> firewall
> rules that will throttle down the connection considerably in the event of 
> a
> DDOS attack.

I'm doing this as a learning experience, so I think I'd enjoy setting up my 
own server and configuring everything.  My *nix skills are a little rusty, 
but I think I could manage.  What kind of hardware are you running for 
.gopher?

Jerry