Re: [H] Domains and spam blocking

2007-11-02 Thread j maccraw
What he said! ;) Ideally you want to be in control of the authoritative DNS servers for your domains not going through a 3rd party. Just one less thing for a 3rd party to FUBAR. Ben Ruset wrote: > If you own a domain, you can either host DNS yourself or have a provider > do it. Most web hosts w

Re: [H] Domains and spam blocking

2007-11-02 Thread Ben Ruset
If you own a domain, you can either host DNS yourself or have a provider do it. Most web hosts will host your DNS for you, although generally you have little or no ability to make/change your own DNS entries. I own my own domain, and manage all of the domains my company owns. I have my own DNS

Re: [H] Domains and spam blocking

2007-11-02 Thread DHSinclair
j maccraw, Does this mean that Thane is running his own DNS server (local)? I would think that I would not have this level of access to a DNS server (OpenDNS or Bellsouth). Best, Duncan At 16:02 11/02/2007 -0700, you wrote: Simple- make sure you have root access to the authoritative DNS servers

Re: [H] Domains and spam blocking

2007-11-02 Thread j maccraw
Simple- make sure you have root access to the authoritative DNS servers and your zone files will never be wrong unless you make a fubar! dnsstuff.com's dnsreport seems to give great info. Thane Sherrington wrote: > I'm seeing more small companies hosting their own domain (or getting it > hosted

Re: [H] Dynamic DHCP re the ISP

2007-11-02 Thread DHSinclair
Christopher, Thanks for the reply and question. I have not tested the /always on/ feature yet. Yes, I recall that during my last dsl usage I was always on' because the rt-314 only ran that way. And, I only recall my assigned IP address changing once due to a network problem on Verizon's side.

Re: [H] Domains and spam blocking

2007-11-02 Thread Gary VanderMolen
Go here: http://member.dnsstuff.com/pages/dnsreport.php? and get their DNSreport. It takes about a minute to finish. Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM] -- From: "Thane Sherrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 7:36 AM To: Subject

[H] Domains and spam blocking

2007-11-02 Thread Thane Sherrington
I'm seeing more small companies hosting their own domain (or getting it hosted outside their ISP) and more and more of them run into problems sending or recieving mail. Sometimes the mail gets blocked as spam, other times it appears to go into the bit bucket. I know that some hosting companie

Re: [H] Dynamic DHCP re the ISP

2007-11-02 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, DHSinclair wrote: And the router has /on-demand/ and /always on/ selections also. Just now I am using the /on-demand/ setting. I figure that if I am not using the internet there is no need to allow the internet a connection to my LAN. Yes, I do still own a tiny tin hat!