[lug] Domain Hosting..

[Atkinson, Chip]

I'd be interested.  Of course I now need to upgrade to the latest version of
bind...

Chip

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy C. Klein [mailto:teece at silverklein.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 8:31 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Domain Hosting..
> 
> 
> Nate,
> 
> I might be interested in your offer.  Also, I could try and return the
> favor for others.  I, too, have DSL, but currently don't 
> really know much 
> about DNS.  I would need to learn before I could help.  Oh 
> yeah, my IP is
> also static.  I have registered silverklein.net but don't 
> currently have
> any DNS pointed to it.  My ISP does email forwarding for 
> free.  But they want
> 5 or 7 bucks a month to do DNS, and a one time fee of 20 buck 
> or the like.
> 
> So where should I go to get up to speed on DNS?
> 
> Anyone else interested.
> 
> Tim
> 
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:55:32AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> > Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:19:09PM -0700, celttechie 
> (Brian Jarrett) wrote:
> > > >It's really easy to list something like ns1.qwest.net as 
> a secondary.  A
> > > 
> > > Yeah, works fine until somone actually tries requesting 
> data for that zone
> > > and QWest refuses to provide it.  I don't recall who it 
> was, but just the
> > > other day I ran into a DNS server that would only provide 
> recursive lookups
> > > to their dial-ups -- I think it was Netcom.
> > 
> > And any server doing "negative lookup caching" that asks 
> ns1.qwest.net
> > (Brian's example) for records that doesn't get any, will 
> not ask your
> > server for records until the zone negative cache TTL time (the SOA
> > record TTL time in BIND 8.2 and beyond) runs out.  
> > 
> > Blip, you just disappeared completely for a portion of the Internet
> > that's using that nameserver to recurse to you.  Bye bye.
> > 
> > As a poor harangued DNS admin amongst other things at work, 
> I truly wish
> > people would simply set up their DNS as it should be set up 
> and not try
> > to abuse the servers by playing tricks like this one.
> > 
> > Of course, the really funny thing is that 90% of the "hey, 
> my DNS isn't
> > working" calls that I get are because someone didn't pay 
> the NSI bill
> > that came in the mail!  Heh heh...
> > http://www.networksolutions.com/payments has become very 
> useful with the
> > year old .com's who've forgotten about paying their bills.
> > 
> > A friend just started using www.zoneedit.com, and they have a "free"
> > service offering going on right now to get business.  I 
> haven't got a
> > clue if they'll be around for long, or if they won't but 
> might be worth
> > a try.
> > 
> > Also, if any BLUG'er has NON-COMMERCIAL zones they need someone to
> > secondary for them (ooh, boy... here it comes, should I really *do*
> > this?) I'd be happy to slave them to my server on my home 
> DSL.   (Awww,
> > what the hell?  Why not?)  It's not the fastest link in the 
> world, so...
> > your call.  Of course, if someone decides to DoS you and starts with
> > your nameserver, I'd be a lot grumpy.  :-)
> > 
> > Nate, nate at natetech.com
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