Goal: serve the public DNS face via Hurricane Electric's free
secondary-DNS service (dns.he.net), with CoreDNS on dell01 acting as
the hidden primary. We edit zones here; HE pulls them via AXFR.
Changes:
- scripts/prepare-zones.sh:
* SOA mname: ns1.vultr.com -> ns1.he.net (so the apex SOA reflects
HE as the primary in published RDATA)
* Strip ns?.vultr.com NS records from each zone and inject the five
HE nameservers (ns1..ns5.he.net) as the authoritative NS set
- Corefile (shared `common` snippet):
* Add `transfer { to * }` to authorize AXFR. Tried specific IPs +
`*` mixed on the same line but CoreDNS silently fails to bind
server blocks with that syntax; bare `to *` is the only form that
actually starts the listeners. Trade-off: NOTIFY targeting is lost
(HE polls per SOA refresh=3600s instead of being pushed). For DNS
data this is fine since each record is publicly queryable anyway.
Verified AXFR end-to-end: `dig @dell01 -p 5353 acrazy.org AXFR +tcp`
returns 41 records with the new HE NS set and HE-rooted SOA.
Still needed (operator action):
- Firewall NAT for TCP/53 -> 172.16.1.15:5353 (so HE can connect in)
- Add each of the 91 zones at dns.he.net as Secondary DNS pointing
at 154.27.180.210
- Update each domain's registrar NS records from Vultr -> HE
Ryan Malloy
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