Talking about who their registr is. do a whois on nufone.net i was very surprised to see the whois results.
On 7/27/07, Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <quote who="C F"> > > > Why is their DNS failing? > > > > Looks like ns1 is down. Probably their master DNS server. > > ns2 is up, but looks like their zone expired, since it could not refresh > > from ns1, so it is no longer reporting authoritative for nufone.net. > > > > They should look into longer expiry times on their SOA record. > > Nufone seems to have a lot of DNS problems. > > Several years ago, when their domain expired with their registrar, I > pointed out that GoDaddy was a bad choice of registrars to begin with, > for a variety of reasons. They're great if you want some cheap domain > name and hosting for your personal blog. However, for commercial > enterprises, they're actually dangerous, as they have some "anti-spam" > policies which allow GoDaddy to turn off your domain if you appear > (note the specific word, "appear") to be involved with spam. > > I suggested at that time that I had trouble accepting as serious a phone > provider who could not take reasonable steps to guarantee ongoing > Internet DNS visibility, since DNS resolvability is necessary for VoIP. > > I suggested at the time that they should become an OpenSRS reseller, and > turn on auto-renew, renew for as many years as possible (10 in the case > of .net), and they'd have much less to worry about on the unexpected- > domain-expiration front. > > However, this is far from the only step that you need to take to ensure > continued DNS resolution on the Internet. Increased values in the SOA > are okay, but better yet is not using master/secondary configurations > (which are, admittedly, incredibly convenient). Working out some SSH > copy-and-restart magic is better. Monitoring logs for DNS system failures > is better. Having more than two DNS servers, and having all of them be > masters, that would be excellent. > > Things like DNS are part of what make up the electronic foundation for > your Internet based business. It's easy to make mistakes, but there's > good advice to be had on how to correct it. > > ... JG > -- > Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net > "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then > I > won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail > spam(CNN) > With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many > apples. > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
