A few weeks ago I caught news that Google was working on an Adsense for Domains program.   Initially rolled out as a beta to select candidates who requested a trial, the service has now been released into the wild for Adsense users all over North America!

I’ve set up a couple of domains I had that weren’t being used as a test.  How did I do it with tinydns?  Read on!

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I’ve been looking into DNSSEC since reading an article on Slashdot about irs.gov beginning to support the protocol.  Surfing around this morning I stumbled upon an excellent article over at the Matasano Security Blog.  Great reading!

Anyway, the blog uses a service called Disqus to let you log in and leave comments, so obviously, being a bit of a nut for blogs and blog related services, I signed up.  And let me tell you, they have one of the best designed signup pages/processes I’ve ever seen!  I just had to share it.

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I was using DomainsAtCost.ca for all my domain registrations, going back years…  recently however I wanted to put a few registrations on Paypal rather than Credit Card.  I like how I pay for it with real money immediately rather than later… which I often get out of hand with.

So I signed up at GoDaddy.

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The other day, my server hosted with SpaceRich was down again.  This time, according to support, their networks were undergoing a massive DDOS.  It was fixed quickly, but it made me realize the importance of having a secondary DNS server.

I don’t have another server handy at the moment to actually provide secondary DNS, so I will likely get a friend to help out.  If they were using tinydns as well, I would simply have to transfer them my new data file every time I update.  I’ve had this automated in past setups, and it is how Dan himself recommends to do it.

However, what if I can only find someone running Bind?  Having worked with Bind in the past, I know it has a pretty sweet master/slave system, which using AXFR, has the slaves automatically retrieve any updates made on the master.

DJBDNS supports this via a program called axfrdns. Setting it up is a similar process to tinydns…

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In my last post, I finished the Postfix setup of things.  dkimproxy was being used as a loopback transport in Postfix to sign the messages and reinject them into the queue.  Sending myself messages, I could clearly see the DKIM sig in the header.

The last step was testing my setup.

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