🔧 Bind9 vs PowerDNS at Home: Which One to Run When You Actually Need Local DNS

TL;DR: The silent failure mode is the one that gets you. Your router's built-in resolver — whatever dnsmasq stub is baked into your OpenWrt or consumer firmware — handles `nas.


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