{"id":174,"date":"2018-02-18T05:05:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T05:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/?p=174"},"modified":"2020-08-20T01:59:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T01:59:46","slug":"dns-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"DNS Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-175\" src=\"http:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DNS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"789\" height=\"528\"><\/p>\n<p>The goal of the DNS structure of my lab was primarily to create a very stable foundation. Second to that, was the addition of two services, the first a local DNS server to avoid loopback issues with my ISP, and the second was pihole ad blocking.<\/p>\n<p>To set this up, UCS was chosen as a domain controller\/DNS server over FreeIPA. Linux was chosen as the platform of choice as that is what a majority of my systems are, and I don&#8217;t have any windows server licenses. UCS was installed to a VM, and a second ubuntu VM was configured with PiHole. These were configured to handle local queries first, then everything else. If one of my local DNS servers is down, the clients won&#8217;t notice a change as everything uses Google DNS as backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of the DNS structure of my lab was primarily to create a very stable foundation. Second to that, was the addition of two services, the first a local DNS server to avoid loopback issues with my ISP, and the second was pihole ad blocking. To set this up, UCS was chosen as a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/?p=174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DNS Structure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25,22],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-dns","tag-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}