Saturday, October 5, 2002 you wrote:
H> Who is going to give me complete control over creating new "A
H> records" and "MX records" for free?
There are some but they may or may not be useful for your purposes.
Some registrars will provide user managed DNS service domains.
or Google for "free dns service" - such as
http://www.zoneedit.com/
http://www.granitecanyon.com/
and others and all with restrictions as you might imagine.
H> Since I already have a colocated IIS server, doesn't it make sense
H> for my server to handle the DNS record handling on my server?
DNS is very, very important to almost all web applications and
especially to Internet mail. Many of the problems posted on this
list ultimately have to do with DNS including my very first post a
long time ago. At the time everyone replied that my problem was
with DNS but I stubbornly refused to belive them for a long time.
Of course they were exactly correct.
DNS is frequently taken too for granted. It is not trivial and
there are significant security issues involved in addition to
normal administration.
It might make sense for your current server to handle DNS under
certain limited circumstances but it is certainly not because you
"just" have a server. I can envision doing it for:
a) relatively low volume queries
b) non-critical application
c) temporary use
d) severe budgetary restraints
e) low use backup
But generally it is much better to provide DNS from a dedicated
server and establish a secondary DNS server on a separate network.
If you are using Microsoft DNS then it has been exhaustively
discussed on this list and it would be beneficial to review the
archives on that issue.
Terry Fritts
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