[ale] godaddy for DNS

[James Sumners]

I use GoDaddy for a registrar and that is all I use them for. I would not
trust them with the DNS records (I wouldn't be surprised if they pointed to
a GoDaddy park page for way longer than they should). No, I use Linode's
DNS manager for all of my records.

That said, I used to use Zone Edit (http://www.zoneedit.com/) when I needed
some free DNS record keeping. They still offer enough free service for your
purposes.

On Thursday, December 29, 2011, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:
> Hi, I have a donated virtual machine to use for a non-profit. Its for the
> International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists (IAVIT). I've
> registered iavit.org at godaddy. But I'm a little confused as to what DNS
> records I need in order to get mail (postfix, dovecot)  and lists
(mailman)
> to work. I need email addresses like john at iavit.org to work and addresses
> like announce at lists.iavit.org to work.
> What I have at the moment is an A record with a blank host name pointing
to
> the IP of our VM, another A record for lists that points to the same IP
> address. I wasn't sure you could have 2 A records pointing to the same IP
> address but it seems to work.  Then I have CNAME records for www and wiki
> pointing to lists.
>
> Can I point godday to a DNS server on the virtual machine itself? I tried
to
> do that but it balked. For one thing, it said I needed 2 DNS servers. I'm
> not sure what the point of that is because iif DNS is down on the VM,
> nothing else on the VM is going to work anyway.
>
>
>
>
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