RE: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-06 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Well, by default its connectionless and therefore unreliable anyway[1] -sc [1] Yes, I know about TCP uses of DNS From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 3:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Admin Issues Subject: Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down... On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:23, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: If you move your DNS now, your DNS will be ISP vendor neutral/independent and that's

RE: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 12:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down... So, if your ISP won't delegate, you're stuck doing two DNS updates whenever you change addresses on something that should have

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-04 Thread Kurt Buff
. From: Kurt Buff [kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: 03 September 2011 12:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down... On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:23, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:  Having your DNS tied to your connectivity or web hosting provider is not good.  Having it independent means you can change other things much easier.  Highly recommended. Forgive the ignorance, but where does this leave PTR

RE: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-03 Thread Paul Hutchings
Subject: Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down... On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:23, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: If you move your DNS now, your DNS will be ISP vendor neutral/independent and that's something that can be done

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-03 Thread Kurt Buff
a technical reason for that tbh. From: Kurt Buff [kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: 03 September 2011 12:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down... On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:23, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: If you move your DNS now, your DNS will be ISP vendor neutral/independent and that's something that can be done easily now if your connectivity suffers in the future it's one less thing to do later. +53 Having your DNS

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-02 Thread Richard Stovall
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RE: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
+1 -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down... On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:  +53 I see what you did

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-02 Thread Jonathan Link
for your ISP goes down... On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: +53 I see what you did there. Nice touch. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage

RE: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
, September 02, 2011 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down... On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: +53 I see what you did there. Nice touch. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-02 Thread Jonathan Link
[mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, September 02, 2011 2:46 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down... ** ** I'm going to -2 to keep us on topic. On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: +1

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:23, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: If you move your DNS now, your DNS will be ISP vendor neutral/independent and that's something that can be done easily now if your connectivity suffers in

RE: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-01 Thread Mark Kelsay
We use UltraDNS, www.ultradns.comhttp://www.ultradns.com. They have DNS servers placed around the world. Not sure of price, I do not handle that part of it. They do have some nice features though. We have used them for just over a year now and have had no issues. Worth a look. Regards,

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-01 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I migrated away from UltraDNS to DNSMadeEasy primarily because UltraDNS costs 10x what DNSMadeEasy does, for the same set of features. Both orgs have multiple data centers, etc. No complaints about their service or support, but definitely not worth the huge premium IMO * * *ASB*

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: I migrated away from UltraDNS to DNSMadeEasy primarily because UltraDNS costs 10x ... UltraDNS is definitely a high-end product. Notably, UltraDNS's infrastructure runs the .org TLD. If you're a very-high-traffic

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-01 Thread Mike Sullivan
Well, so far in the 7+ years we had o1.com we only had 2 outages, one from a major storm and another from a cut fiber that was ATT's fault. No outages as of yet since TelePacific bought them last year but I have a close eye on them after this crap they pulled and will get a new ISP if anything

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-09-01 Thread Steven Peck
If you move your DNS now, your DNS will be ISP vendor neutral/independent and that's something that can be done easily now if your connectivity suffers in the future it's one less thing to do later. On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Mike Sullivan neog...@gmail.com wrote: Well, so far in the 7+

RE: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-08-31 Thread Tim Evans
Due to problems like this, we've moved our DNS to DNS Made Easy (http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/). There are others that can do it too, but these guys do a good job for us for not much money, ...Tim From: Mike Sullivan [mailto:neog...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 8:10 AM To: NT

RE: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Hutchings
My advice? Spend $20 and use a dedicated DNS company. They aren't immune but generally will be much better geared up to avoid this kind of thing. From: Mike Sullivan [neog...@gmail.com] Sent: 31 August 2011 4:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: When DNS

RE: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-08-31 Thread Rick Berry
Dyndns ftw. www.dyndns.comhttp://www.dyndns.com Easydns also ftw, www.easydns.comhttp://www.easydns.com From: Mike Sullivan [mailto:neog...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: When DNS for your ISP goes down... Yesterday I stayed home

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-08-31 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Mike Sullivan neog...@gmail.com wrote: I do actually have a question here. Was there anything I could have done to get us up and running? At that stage in the game? Unlikely. But now that you've learned the lesson, you can take steps to prevent a

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-08-31 Thread Mike Sullivan
Thank you for your replies. We will be checking out the DNS hosting companies recommended here along with our registrar's DNS. On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Mike Sullivan neog...@gmail.com wrote: I do actually have a

RE: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-08-31 Thread John Aldrich
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down... Thank you for your replies. We will be checking out the DNS hosting companies recommended here along with our registrar's DNS.  On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11

Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-08-31 Thread Andrew S. Baker
+1 DNS Made Easy and DynDNS are two of the best organizations, with great pricing and a broad range of services. And get yourself a new ISP. There are other things they can break (like your connectivity) that will be hard to fix on the fly... * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker*