[ale] godaddy for DNS

[gcs8]

Godaddy stole a domain from me for a year and 60 days, never even check
avaublity on there site.

Also for mx records you don't need a prefix you use @ or what ever modifyer
your domain hosting wants.

Sorry for spelling walking and typeing
On Dec 29, 2011 12:39 PM, "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>
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> corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a
> condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>
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