OT: DNS Zone policy and hidden masters (was: Re: OT?: Emailing from within filepro)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 12:07:01PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >Actually, the sugested solution to this problem is to tell the world
> >your ISP's NS is your primary (list it first), but tell that server
> >it's a slave -- to your "real" "hidden" master server behind the DSL
> >line.  If your zone expire time is long enough, and both servers do
> >NOTIFY, this gets you the best of both worlds.
> 
> This assumes that (a) your ISP agrees to do this, and (b) has enough of a
> clue to implement it properly, neither of which are all that common these
> days.

Really?  For non-consumer providers, I don't have to much trouble
getting it done.  Finding the right person to ask is the biggest
hassle.

>       There are registrars that provide DNS services that allow you to
> update your own DNS on their servers with a web interface.

Indeed.  Domain Discover just started doing this, and does it well, and
doesn't charge extra for it,  and will even secondary your own server,
or allow you to upload a zone file raw.

*Very* nice.

Cheers,
-- jra
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