What DNS resolver do you use?

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As title says. I also understand that spamhaus blocks certain public DNS. So what DNS do you use?

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I use my own dns resolver (PowerDNS Recursor), but if you want to use a public dns resolver not blocked by Spamhaus (at least not yet) use ControlD public servers 76.76.2.0 and 76.76.10.0

More info and other options here:

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Do you host this on the same boxes as hestia?

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Yes, I do

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No conflict with bind?

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I don’t use bind but if you don’t want to have conflicts, configure the dns resolver to listen on ip 127.0.0.2 and conflict solved, or configure bind to be a dns resolver too and you don’t need to add any other software.

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Just use Hetzner default en have bind installed

Have never hand an issue before

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I only asked this question because i recently discovered that spamhaus doesn’t work if i use google DNS which is default for all my vps.

I use bind with the dns cluster setup, is it complicated to configure bind as the DNS resolver or will it have conflict with the cluster setup?

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It should be already configured, just test it:

 dig @127.0.0.1 hestiacp.com +short

If you see 3 ips then your bind is acting as dns resolver and you only will need to configure your system to use it (127.0.0.1).

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You are right. So if i updated the etc/resolv.conf file there is normally a primary and secondary DNS.

Do i just need to put the 127.0.0.1 once or twice? or Just once and delete the secondary?

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Just once or add too a secondary that works with Spamhaus like 76.76.2.0