Re: [cobalt-users] DNS Opinion

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This response has taken a long time; these days I'm too busy to read
this list every day <frown>....

Points/response below, inline...

The Cathouse Central E-mail Facility wrote:

> I'm trying to keep my overhead low so buying another machine to act
> as the DNS server is not feasible at this point.

Nor is it necessary.

> I'm curious to find what others in  similar situations are doing.  Neither
> the rackers nor the registrars seem to be able to handle DNS that don't
> point to their own machines.

After years of soul-searching, we've decided to become an openSRS
reseller, and we'll be offering domain registration packages with or
without our DNS-hosting services, later this year.

> I've looked at DNS management services but
> they charge around $25-50 per DNS per year.

We offer both complete (primary and secondary) DNS hosting and secondary
DNS hosting, at significantly lower prices.

> Is it worth setting up the DNS service on my RaQ considering the use it's
> going to get full of (small) web sites?

Absolutely.  You and your customers would be best served by you hosting
your own primary DNS (at ns1.yourdomain.com) on your RaQ, and having
someone else host your secondary DNS (at ns2.yourdomain.com).  You can
do this either by making trade arrangements with another RaQ owner
(found from this list?), or by buying a commercial service for secondary
only from us or from another vendor.

Our services are provided through a domain we've set up specifically for
DNS hosting; ns-one.net.  If you use us you can either use our
nameserver names (ns1.ns-one.net, etc.) or your own domain name
(ns2.yourdomain.com).

Jeff
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