Recently made the transition to self hosting authoritative name servers. Wrote a bit of secondary options available for it and the experience itself https://blog.sahilister.in/2025/07/secondary-authoritative-name-server-options-for-self-hosted-domains/

Didn't found the process too hard TBF, worth a try.

Case of (broken) maharashtra.gov.in Authoritative Name Servers https://blog.sahilister.in/2025/06/case-of-broken-maharashtra.gov.in-authoritative-name-servers/

TLDR they're broken on multiple levels. Sync broken, RFC 1918 address, each NS giving different response - there's too much going on.

Good enough amount of name servers :P
```
$ dig ns sahil.rocks +short
ns2.afraid.org.
marvin.sahilister.net.
ns1.1984.is.
ns0.1984.is.
ns3.jing.rocks.
colin.sahilister.net.
puck.nether.net.
ns2.albony.in.
ns-global.kjsl.com.
ns4.he.net.
ns5.he.net.
```

Observing .ic TLD against authoritative nameservers serving samsung.com. No information of them anywhere.

$ dig ns samsung.com +short
auth04.sam.ic.
auth02.nhn.ic.
auth01.nhn.ic.
dns-gi2.samsung.com.
auth02.sam.ic.
dnssm.samsung.com.
dns-awskr1.samsung.com.
dnssm2.samsung.com.
dnsst.samsung.com.
dnsst2.samsung.com.
auth03.nhn.ic.
auth04.nhn.ic.
auth01.sam.ic.
auth03.sam.ic.
dns-gi1.samsung.com.

Maybe some internal thingy? Thoughts?

How good (or a bad) idea is to run ones own authoritative nameservers?

Any tips/tricks/suggestions or gotyas to remember?

@pvonhellermannn
You are so imaginative!
I hope that your thinking of designing new paths is arousing joy!

Please consider writing about material on community-based academics.
My assignment from me to you!
No timeline.

That would be two steps further than your excellent https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/111811198121383932