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Re: [cobalt-users] DNS Opinion

Steve,
Thanks for the info. I'm still not comfortable enough as an administrator to run the DNS off my machine, one step at a time y'know. However I did go to centralinfo and am taking advantage of their free DNS service which seems to suit my needs just fine. 

Thanks for the tip.

Howard Pressburger
Montreal, Qc, Canada



At 10:48 PM 9/1/00 +0100, you wrote:

I have a RAQ3 and I use the rack as the primary DNS , which seems to work
fine . I registered a new domain and the registrar I used allowed me to
create a new nameserver ... which I called ns1.mydomain.com which points to
the RAQ's IP address.

As a secondary DNS - I use the free service of  http://www.centralinfo.net

The great thing is - it doesent cost anything at all..

Steve Bassi
London UK

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Cathouse Central E-mail Facility" <thecathouse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 6:51 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] DNS Opinion


> Long time reader, first time poster  so here goes.
>
> I'm trying to figure out the best solution for DNS for my needs.  I have a
> RaQ3i at a remote location where I lease racking services and
> bandwidth.  On the one machine I plan to host up to 200 sites and so I've
> got a deal with a registrar for bulk discounts on domain names.  I've
tried
> a few different approaches to DNS management with varying degrees of
> satisfaction/success, whichever I choose I want to commit to for at least
a
> year.  I'm trying to keep my overhead low so buying another machine to act
> as the DNS server is not feasible at this point.
>
> 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.  I've looked at DNS management services but
> they charge around $25-50 per DNS per year.  I've also looked at The
Public
> DNS service (soa.granitecanyon.com) but there seems to be an ethical
> question about using this service for commercial sites.
>
> Is it worth setting up the DNS service on my RaQ considering the use it's
> going to get full of (small) web sites?  Any other solutions out there?
> Your feedback is important to me so any response no matter how depressing
> will be read and well considered.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Howard
>
>


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