Re: Recommended free secondary DNS?
>> Can someone recommend any free secondary DNS services?
>> I've used Granite Canyon but need others.
Granite Canyon can be tricky. I've found NS2 doesn't work,
for years and years and years, but they require it be
"advertised" in an NS record. Therefore:
1. Put NS1 in your domain registration. If you need another,
list NS3. But there is no use telling the world to look for
you via NS2 because it will just time out.
2. to satisfy the NS2 advertisement requirement, define
a resource record of type NS but make it refer to a
subdomain such as bogus.example.net (where your domain is
example.net of course) and define RRs for NS1 and NS3 that work.
In a BIND zone file, for example:
@ IN NS ns1.granitecanyon.com.
bogus IN NS ns2.granitecanyon.com.
@ IN NS ns3.granitecanyon.com.
> http://www.twisted4life.com are very good.
Meanwhile, I have had great success with Zoneedit.com
and Mydyndns.org. The latter isn't free, but they have
a huge well-run infrastructure and they donate $Ks to the
free software movement. I put my most important domains there.
BTW Pair.com donates to FS movement too.
Also I have had good results with registrars Stargateinc.com
and Gandi.net. If you register with them you get "free"
secondary DNS.
Ob-Debian: If you're running Debian's bind9, don't forget to change
the rndc authentication string.
--
Cameron
http://greens.org/~cls/
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