[ale] Speedfactory DNS question

[Greg]

http://soa.granitecanyon.com is a free service that I found.  However, it
*seems* that it is not for the faint of heart i.e. you post your own zone
info instead of having some Sys Admin at a company do it for you.  So far
this looks like one of the best deals out there.  Google did find a few
others (I did not save the links) that I will look at.  Of course I could
just take an old throwaway box and set it up with tinydns or OpenBSD's
audited version of BIND (a rewritten version of BIND v4 without all of the
crap) since I only have 1 single static IP anyway.  My private network still
is small enough for host files so I am guessing it will a fun way to learn
more about DNS.

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/third-party.html is an interesting treatise on third
party DNS hosters if anyone is interested.  Written by Daniel J. Bernstein
of course - the man seems to have quite a few opinions on the Internet.

btw, I appreciate all comments on the dsl providers threads the past few
weeks.  I have decided to go cheap and go speedfactory, though I think that
speakeasy has more features (2 IP's, more web space 50 Mb vs. 30 Mb, web
configuration interface with some security, dns hosting, extra ip's, mail,
etc) and will seriously look at switching again in a year (if I am still in
IT).  Hopefully I won't have any serious regrets with speedfactory.

Greg Canter




> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Matt Kern
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 12:14 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Speedfactory DNS question
>
>
> James CE Johnson wrote:
>
> >>On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 22:45, Greg wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>For those on Speedfactory, are you paying the $5.00/month for DNS
> >>>hosting or are you using your own DNS servers (primary & secondary) ?
> >>>Are there any drawbacks to having your own DNS servers ?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Management and maintenance would be two big ones. Why deal with the
> >>hassle when the ISP can do it for you? They might also be able to
> >>provide some fault tolerance (server and geographic redundancy).
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Checkout zoneedit.com. They'll do DNS for up to five domains for free.
> >They also handle dynamic updates for you folks without static IPs. I've
> >been using them for years with no complaints.
> >
> Is this free for more than one year?  The FAQ is fuzzy about the
> billing...
>
> >
> >
> >
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>
> >>>Greg Canter
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
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