Preston Hagar <prestonh <at> gmail.com> writes: > Another option is http://freedns.afraid.orgI have used them for several years and had no problems. They are free.Preston
>> James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> wrote: >> Hello,I'm looking for a good DNS registrar... Hello Preston et al, Your chosen service (afraid.org) combined with the others: (zoneedit && everydns) look interesting. However, what I'm looking for is a registrar like: http://www.goaustraliadomains.com/ that is inexpensive (8.95/yr) and will point (100%) authority to my primary name server, at my static IP address. What I would like is a server that provides secondary service(resolution) while allowing me to run the primary server on my single static IP. Often folks exchange secondary services, agreeing to security semantics that preclude nefarious activities such as spamming, dos, etc etc. I understand in this day and age, folks have security concerns with that sort of arrangement(unless they agree on the security semantics) but it is preferred and allows me to run my own dns config files and maintain authority. Merely pointing resource records and such in a config file on a server that somebody else controls, is not really what I'm looking for. Maybe I'm being too idealistic here, but, this goes to the very heart of what I consider 'community'; community is a fundamental tenant of the Internet, methinks. Surely this is not so difficult to find other like minded technical folks that share/provide secondary dns resolution for others? Surely we there is a wiki or one can be developed where folks follow to provide secure secondary dns services for one another? If an unfair 'bandwidth' arrangement become apparent, I believe we have the necessary (QOS) technology (iptables/netfilter) to limit the bandwidth consumed by a secondary name service one provides for another. If the more technical folks to not share such solutions with the youth of the internet, folks will grow up thinking that haveing your own dns means somebody else points resource records to your server, and precludes the masses from experiencing the power of running their own dns services. Sure the root authority is still needed, but robust, multifaceted dns services are a quinessential tool for the future of the internet. It's been a few years since I've set up primary and secondary DNS services, but, surely the rfc's (1033 -1035) are still followed? Most of the newer(proposed) rfc's related to DNS do not look appealing to me; but, I have not studied them in depth to certify that sort of conclusion. I wonder why the various 'dns services' offered either for free or for a fee, do not mention which rfc's they are in compliance with? Are there any readers of this list that still provide their own primary/secondary dns services? Or offer secondary services to others for a fee or free? I'm either a dinosaur or I have missed something fundamental on the evolution of DNS? confused, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
