First of all, can we lose the confrontational tones?
On 08-Feb-99 Michael Sondow wrote:
> John B. Reynolds a écrit:
>
> > You administer your zone indirectly by controlling which ISP runs it
> > directly.
>
> Administer the zone indirectly? What are you talking about? Is this a game
> of semantics to you? It's a file. How do I change it's contents when it's on
> a server in the house or office of someone else, and I don't have write
> access? Would you like to tell everyone who may be witnessing this inane
> discussion just what in the name of mother McCreedy you're talking about?
>
> > You have the power to move your zone file to another provider
>
> Move the zone file? What, copy and paste it from one server to another? Is
> that how zone files are transferred? Horse-puckey! And even if it were, what
> average domain name holder even knows how to access zone files, or has
> access to a unix machine to do it with?
Doesn't need to. See below.
> > to your own server (assuming sufficient Internet connectivity)
>
> How many domain name holders have unix boxes with BIND running on them, or
> know how to configure BIND? Even the ISPs can't do it correctly.
Don't need to. See below.
> > or to a service
> > that would permit you to administer it directly.
>
> No such service exists. But I see your game. You're not interested in useful
> discussion, but in seeing if you can manipulate people. I won't waste any
> more time with you.
Yes they do! There are a number of commercial DNS providers who provide a
simple interface to managing your own DNS zone with primary and secondary dns
servers for quite reasonable rates. There is also a FREE dns provider
providing both primary and secondary servers, but this requires a quick lesson
in constructing an actual zone file, something I have seen a lot of relative
newbies do, and a newsgroup is hosted by the service for users to get help from
each other.
John knew exactly what he was talking about. Can we broaden our minds and
accept that our own limited view of how things appear might not be the ONLY
view or the ONLY way things are done?
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E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 07-Feb-99
Time: 20:58:01
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