On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Jochen Daum <[email protected]> wrote: ... > You need to find a email provider that can host your email without > having to have the DNS for it. All of them do it, you just can't use > Freeparking as they have the DNS currently. > > Move DNS to somewhere without email, but keep MX records in place, so > they point to Freeparking. I'm pretty sure they won't drop the email > boxes, because DNS is somewhere else, only Xtra does that (better > check though) > > Then set up new email and point MX to the new server. Wait 24 h. > > Then move DNS to final place.
This is probably the best you can do. If it's a .nz domain, the master DNS gets relocaded on the hour (nominal) so I suggest that you change DNS at 5 minutes before the hour to minimise downtime > BTW, we just discovered this problem as well with Webdrive, so will > likely move DNS somewhere completely else in any case, currently > probably nettica.com Yes, as far as I know they all do this. Sorry to plug my own blog, but I vented about this 17 months ago http://domainingnz.blogspot.com/2008/10/beware-of-free-dns-services.html The best time to move off your registrar's DNS is beore you start getting traffic. The 2nd best time is today. -- Bruce Clement Home: http://www.clement.co.nz/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/Bruce_Clement Google Buzz: http://www.google.com/profiles/aotearoanz "Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field." Mikhail Kalashnikov -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nzphpug+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
