Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears to me that OpenDNS 
provides only DNS Resolver (aka recursive, caching) services. I believe 
that Ryan's looking for Authoritative DNS service, which I don't see 
OpenDNS providing. Am I missing something here?

Lisa Kachold wrote:
> OpenDNS
> 
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Ryan Rix <phrkonale...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:phrkonale...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hey guys,
> 
>     I finally registered a domain in my own name for the purpose of lulz and
>     filehosting. Unfortunately I decided I wanted a trendy domain name,
>     not a .com
>     or anything like that, so I registered rix.si <http://rix.si> via
>     the domain registrar COBIT
>     in Slovenia, since that's apparently the ONLY .si domain registrar
>     with an
>     English site.
> 
>     So I did it, whew, 25$ a year. And then they told me they didn't
>     host DNS.
> 
>     Now, I'm cheap. :) My friend who hosts my irssi screen session lovingly
>     offered up a spot on his virtual server for my site, which is basically
>     awesome because I have shell access to the box, on top of many other
>     benefits.
>     :-) But, his domain is registered via a different, more sensible,
>     registrar,
>     who actually provides DNS service for the domains they register, so
>     he doesn't
>     have to dick around setting up bind9 or dnsmasq.
> 
>     Which leaves me in a pickle. I feel bad asking him to go through all
>     the work
>     to set up a bind9 server after he offered up space on his server for
>     free, but
>     I cannot seem to find a service that ONLY hosts DNS entries. I don't
>     really
>     need all of the services that DynDNS provides, but I'm willing to
>     use that if
>     nothing else comes up. One would think DNS hosting could be done
>     incredibly
>     cheaply, but I have found no real solutions, and any suggestions are
>     appreciated.
>     Thanks,
>     Ryan
> 
>     --
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