The TTLs are REFRESH value: 86400 RETRY value: 86400 EXPIRE value: 86400 TTL value: 86400 According to the documentation SOA values are not editable - I assume that includes the contact The service won't work with .de domains (they think they might have fixed this but don't know !) Wildcard subdomains are not supported >From what I can tell only forward DNS is supported
I don't have a real issue with not having support for wildcard sub-domains but do not see any valid reason why the other features should not be available. mdnsservice.com is meant to be the "white label" DNS service but its name servers are ns1 to ns3.tucows.com. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McAtee Sent: 01 February 2004 18:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Managed DNS Service concerns ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 7:46 AM Subject: Managed DNS Service concerns > When the Managed DNS service was originally launched I was under the > impression that it would be > > a) A white label solution > b) Globally distributed > c) I assumed (reasonably I think) that the zone would be 100% editable > - but it is not (ttl's etc) My understanding was that ttl's were universally 5 minutes. I suppose to minimize caching/propogation problems and lessen the need for anyone to worry about dropping ttl's prior to making changes. It's probably the easiest way to deal with potential problems. What other data can't be managed? Can you change the contact email address in the SOA? > A simple nslookup clearly identifies Tucows as the provider In what sense - the domains in which the name servers reside?
