A bit of fuckery aside, I’ve finally gotten around to retiring ns2. My poor Raspberry Pi Zero never even got a proper hostname assigned to it, because it was “technically” intended to be a temporary task or just there for redundancy. Not really, the big do’er of all the traffic that it turned out to be.
Well, it’s officially reclaimed and an ASUS NUC14 has taken on the duty. I’ve christened her Pegasus because I’m unimaginative that way, or the pun is just that amusing to me 😜. So I now have the following arrangement: Maleficent, Pegasus, and Cream as nameservers.
Pegasus is effectively setup like Maleficent, but like Cream is configured in a slave mode. Resolving .home.arpa is owned by the Maleficent ns1, while Pegasus and Cream serve as ns2 and ns3 respectively. Each is setup for an easy switch over, so in a pickle, I can convert Maleficent into handling all the DNS duties, and either Pegasus or Cream can be converted into replacing Maleficent as a master should that be necessary.
The primary downside is this removes having an independent flavor, Pegasus and Maleficent both run AlmaLinux and Cream runs RHEL. So, no Debian in the mix. But the positive is that most of my traffic is no longer flowing through an old Raspbian powered Raspberry Pi with the original ARMv6 chipset…. lol.
Also, it means I can use the little pie for something else. Hehehe.