Nameserver Selection

A nameserver is a program that maintains a list of your domain names and their corresponding IP addresses, allowing visitors to find the domains hosted on your server. It is a vital component of the networking setups of most servers. However, servers using a remote nameserver do not need to configure their own.

Here you can select the nameserver you wish to use, if any.

Nameserver	Advantages	Disadvantages	Notes
PowerDNS	Very high performance. Instant start-up. Low memory requirements.	Does not provide a recursive (caching) nameserver. (requires external nameservers in resolv.conf) CPU intensive with a high volume of DNS zones that use DNSSEC	This is the default choice. Built-in support for DNSSEC.
BIND	Configuration file can be manually edited. Extremely configurable. Provides a caching nameserver. Very tolerant of syntax errors in zone files.	Large memory footprint.
MyDNS Deprecated	Warning: MyDNS is deprecated and we will remove it in a future release.
NSD Deprecated	Warning: NSD is deprecated and we will remove it in a future release.
Disabled			This option will disable the nameserver. If you are serving dns as part of a cluster you may not need to run one locally.