[NTLUG:Discuss] Questions on DNS and /etc/init.d

[Todd Slavinsky]

A couple quick questions on DNS and /etc/init.d here.

First off, I just moved to a new place and signed up
with SBC DSL.  Everything is good so far.  I'm not
happy to have dynamic IP (I had static at the last
place), but I followed a tip from the list here, and
signed my domain up with everydns.net.  Seems like a
great service so far.

Question, though.  Should I reconfigure named on my
main box to run exclusively as a caching nameserver
now (it was authoritative for my domain previously)? 
I'm running the perl script on reboot (more on that
later) to update the IPs on everydns, so I don't think
I need to store any lookup information.  I'm still a
bit of a dimbulb in the DNS department, though, so
please let me know if I'm misinformed.  

Right now my personal FTP server and web server both
reside on the same machine (the routing/firewall box -
bad idea, I know).  If I was to move those services to
different boxes, any idea how that would work?  Would
I have all the A and MX records on everydns pointing
to the main router box running named, and resolve
things locally from there?

Sorry if I didn't phrase that right.

Anyways, last question - I'm running Debian, and I do
want to run the DNS perl client on reboot to keep my
DNS records updated.  However, the DNS client doesn't
follow the standard init.d practices of having {start,
stop, restart} methods.  Should I install using
update-rc.d, or is there a different way clients like
this that I would like to be run should be set up? 
I've done this in quick and dirty ways before, but I'd
prefer to know a smarter/cleaner way to do it.

Thanks,
Todd



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