Re: [OT] Hosting a DNS

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> On 03.06.09 21:23, GNUbie wrote:
>   
> > What do you think is the main reason or the importance of hosting your
> > own DNS when your ISP and/or Domain Registrar can host it for you for
> > FREE?
> >     
>
> direct access to the zones, ability to change it whenever you want.
> However applies even if you run the primary and your ISP the secondary.
>
>   
> > Normally if you are going to host your own DNS for your organization,
> > ideally you need to run it at least on two (2) different machines
> > connected at least to two (2) different ISPs.
> >     
>
> Just run the (hidden) primary on your machine and ask one-two providers to
> run the secondary
>   
Exactly what I do, for exactly those reasons. 

Need to make sure that you're set up to automatically push changes to 
the secondaries, and that they're set up to accept the changes.

Miles

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