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To: balug-talk@balug.org From: Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net> Subject: [Balug-talk] DNS recommendation Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:38:39 -0700 Hi guys, I want to host my site on my home computer over my DSL line (static IP DSL through SBC Pacbell). So I need a DNS service to point my domain name at my static IP address. As usual it is a mess shopping for this on the Net, a glut of ads and add-on garbage I don't want; I just want good DNS service. A site that offers plain vanilla domain registration and DNS service at a competitive rate would be perfect (maybe $10 - 20 a year I think is competitive these days). Any baluggers have DNS recommendation? === To: Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net> From: Aaron T Porter <atporter@primate.net> Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] DNS recommendation Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:43:45 -0700 On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:38:39PM -0700, Roger Chrisman wrote: > So I need a DNS service to point my domain name at my static IP > address. As usual it is a mess shopping for this on the Net, > a glut of ads and add-on garbage I don't want; I just want good DNS > service. A site that offers plain vanilla domain registration and DNS > service at a competitive rate would be perfect (maybe $10 - 20 a year > I think is competitive these days). > > Any baluggers have DNS recommendation? Run your own, and then have www.secondary.com pull records and serve them to the net. For a small domain (or 5) it's 100% free. They're based on Bind. There's also a couple guys out of palo alto that are running a coop dns service, don't remember their url, but if you search for my address and djbdns in the SVLUG archives it should pop up. === To: Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net> From: William R Ward <bill@wards.net> Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] DNS recommendation Date: 23 Jul 2002 17:01:12 -0700 Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net> writes: > Hi guys, > > I want to host my site on my home computer over my DSL line (static IP > DSL through SBC Pacbell). > > So I need a DNS service to point my domain name at my static IP > address. As usual it is a mess shopping for this on the Net, > a glut of ads and add-on garbage I don't want; I just want good DNS > service. A site that offers plain vanilla domain registration and DNS > service at a competitive rate would be perfect (maybe $10 - 20 a year > I think is competitive these days). > > Any baluggers have DNS recommendation? Use www.dyndns.org. A $30 lifetime donation buys you a nice web-based interface to administer DNS. Also, you can ditch the static IP. You really don't need it. With dyndns.org you can have a dynamic IP and still have DNS work. It's really quite cool. Disclaimer: I have no affiliation other than as a very satisfied user. === To: balug-talk@balug.org From: Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] DNS recommendation Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:32:44 -0700 Aaron tapped: > Run your own, and then have www.secondary.com pull records and > serve them to the net. For a small domain (or 5) it's 100% free. Thanks Aaron. I'm climbing a steep leaning curve, new to Linux and server computing. Need to lean an MTA and the workings of the Python Mailman email list package to move my lists from Yahoogroups to my server. Also moving a few Web sites on board. All new to me. So I think I might want to put off learning to do DNS myself for another project. William wrote: > Use www.dyndns.org. A $30 lifetime donation buys you a nice web-based > interface to administer DNS. [dinamic IP OK, too]... Thanks William! I will have a look at that. I just found another free DNS service, "The Public DNS Service" (http://www.granitecanyon.com). Anybody have experience with them? Dreaming.. I was hoping to find a domain name registrar that would both register my domain and provide DNS, at the US$ 10 - 15 per year price range, and move all my domain registrations there. Register.com does that but charges $35 per year per domain. It is probably worth it but for some reason I don't want to pay that for each of my various domains :-). ..um, am I still dreaming :-)? === To: Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net> From: Claude Rubinson <cmsclaud@arches.uga.edu> Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] DNS recommendation Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:46:29 -0400 (EDT) On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Roger Chrisman wrote: > Dreaming.. > I was hoping to find a domain name registrar that would both register > my domain and provide DNS, at the US$ 10 - 15 per year price range, and > move all my domain registrations there. Register.com does that but > charges $35 per year per domain. It is probably worth it but for some > reason I don't want to pay that for each of my various domains :-). > > ..um, am I still dreaming :-)? Gandi.net === To: balug-talk@balug.org From: Keith Keller <kkeller@speakeasy.net> Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] DNS recommendation Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:50:15 -0700 On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 05:32:44PM -0700, Roger Chrisman wrote: > I just found another free DNS service, "The Public DNS Service" > (http://www.granitecanyon.com). Anybody have experience with them? Only fairly old (> 1year old) experience. When I used them, they were having major problems with the availability of their nameservers, as well as synchronizing data with the master. This may have changed since I used them. IIRC, they host a news server with a few groups, where you could lurk for a while to see what others are saying. When I was subscribed to it, they seemed to have a fairly open posting policy (i.e., they weren't cancelling posts which critiziced them). === To: Claude Rubinson <cmsclaud@arches.uga.edu> From: balug@gory.org Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] DNS recommendation Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:11:30 -0700 On Tue, 23 Jul, at 20:46:29 -0400, Claude Rubinson <cmsclaud@arches.uga.edu> wrote: > > I was hoping to find a domain name registrar that would both register > > my domain and provide DNS, at the US$ 10 - 15 per year price range, and > > move all my domain registrations there. Register.com does that but > > charges $35 per year per domain. It is probably worth it but for some > > reason I don't want to pay that for each of my various domains :-). > > > > ..um, am I still dreaming :-)? You might check out godaddy.com. I think domains there at like $8.95 but I don't know about the DNS stuff. === To: <balug-talk@balug.org> From: Romel <penguin@techbandit.com> Subject: [Balug-talk] DNS / Domain Registrar recommendation Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:19:33 -0700 (PDT) > I just want good DNS > service. A site that offers plain vanilla domain registration and DNS > service at a competitive rate would be perfect (maybe $10 - 20 a year > I think is competitive these days). > I've been using joker.com for domain registration for the past couple of years and have been quite happy with them. Their service includes hosting DNS service, both primary and secondary. Everything is administered via web browser. I think they cost around ~$10/year. They're based out of Germany,so I originally had concerns about support, but the one or two issues I had were resolved promptly via email. ===