Re: OT-ish: In need of DNS hosting

2009-11-04 Thread Alex Dean 


On Nov 4, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote:


On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Eric Shubert  wrote:

Ryan Rix wrote:

Ryan Rix wrote:


Eric Shubert wrote:


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?

Yes, this is what I need; apologies for not clearing that up.  
Afaict both

FreeDNS and OpenDNS did this :(



I lied; just set up FreeDNS. Just have to wait for my registrar to  
properly

delegate the entries.

Thanks
Ryan



That's nice to know about FreeDNS. Is it free as in beer, or is  
there a

nominal fee? Also, can it handle dynamic addresses?


 free as in beer, been using it for more than a year on my blog.  I
does handle dynamic dns, but I dont know much about it.

 -jmz


I've been very happy with EveryDNS for the last 5 years or so.
http://www.everydns.com/

alex


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Re: OT-ish: In need of DNS hosting

2009-11-04 Thread Joshua Zeidner 
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Eric Shubert  wrote:
> Ryan Rix wrote:
>> Ryan Rix wrote:
>>
>>> Eric Shubert wrote:
>>>
 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?

>>> Yes, this is what I need; apologies for not clearing that up. Afaict both
>>> FreeDNS and OpenDNS did this :(
>>>
>>
>> I lied; just set up FreeDNS. Just have to wait for my registrar to properly
>> delegate the entries.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ryan
>>
>
> That's nice to know about FreeDNS. Is it free as in beer, or is there a
> nominal fee? Also, can it handle dynamic addresses?

  free as in beer, been using it for more than a year on my blog.  I
does handle dynamic dns, but I dont know much about it.

  -jmz


>
> Does OpenDNS have an authoritative service? I didn't see it when I
> browsed the site.
>
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Re: OT-ish: In need of DNS hosting

2009-11-04 Thread Eric Shubert 
Ryan Rix wrote:
> Ryan Rix wrote:
> 
>> Eric Shubert wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>> Yes, this is what I need; apologies for not clearing that up. Afaict both
>> FreeDNS and OpenDNS did this :(
>>
> 
> I lied; just set up FreeDNS. Just have to wait for my registrar to properly 
> delegate the entries.
> 
> Thanks
> Ryan
> 

That's nice to know about FreeDNS. Is it free as in beer, or is there a 
nominal fee? Also, can it handle dynamic addresses?

Does OpenDNS have an authoritative service? I didn't see it when I 
browsed the site.

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Re: OT-ish: In need of DNS hosting

2009-11-04 Thread Ryan Rix 
Ryan Rix wrote:

> Eric Shubert wrote:
> 
>> 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?
>> 
> 
> Yes, this is what I need; apologies for not clearing that up. Afaict both
> FreeDNS and OpenDNS did this :(
> 

I lied; just set up FreeDNS. Just have to wait for my registrar to properly 
delegate the entries.

Thanks
Ryan

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Re: OT-ish: In need of DNS hosting

2009-11-04 Thread Ryan Rix 
Eric Shubert wrote:

> 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?
> 

Yes, this is what I need; apologies for not clearing that up. Afaict both 
FreeDNS and OpenDNS did this :(

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Re: OT-ish: In need of DNS hosting

2009-11-04 Thread Eric Shubert 
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  > 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  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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Re: OT-ish: In need of DNS hosting

2009-11-04 Thread Donn 
I agree. OpenDNS is fast, inexpensive, and reliable.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote:

> OpenDNS
>
>
>

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Re: OT-ish: In need of DNS hosting

2009-11-04 Thread Joshua Zeidner 
 use this for my blog: http://freedns.afraid.org/

 its free and dependable.  -jmz

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Ryan Rix  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 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
>
> --
> Ryan Rix
> Fedora KDE SIG Member, Phoenix AZ Ambassador, News KDE Beat writer
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Re: OT-ish: In need of DNS hosting

2009-11-04 Thread Lisa Kachold 
OpenDNS

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Ryan Rix  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 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
>
> --
> Ryan Rix
> Fedora KDE SIG Member, Phoenix AZ Ambassador, News KDE Beat writer
>
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