Linode will only give me 1 ip4 IP address - what to do for second nameserver?

[phillcoxon]

Linode will only give me 1 x ipv4 ip address (although I have a whole block of ipv6) which makes it very hard to set up a second nameserver.

Is someone able to give me some suggestions on what to do?

I was thinking I could spin up a $5/month Digital Ocean droplet and use that as a second nameserver.

What would be the best way to set this up so that I can sync all changes to the second nameserver?

Am I right in thinking that this is what Direct Slave is for?

Thank you!

 

[phillcoxon]

Posting back to say that I worked through the DirectSlave thread, spun up a $5/month droplet and have DirectSlave up and running.

Got caught up a couple of things:

* Trying to figure out the correct permissions for /etc/namedb/ so that bind would start took forever. Ugh.
* It's really, really helpful to unblock the ports we're using to talk to the direct slave box in CSF. (sigh)
* Install cpanm (much more memory efficient cpan) - works the same but allows us to install perl modules with far less memory (on a $5 Digital Ocean droplet with only 512Mb RAM, for example)

Install with:

curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - --self-upgrade

Looks like it's working great now!