I concur with the suggestion for someone like DynDNS. At least with them it's free, or at least it was for us. ISTR there is a certain amount of hosts over which it requires a paid (inexpensive) account.
From: Mike Sullivan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down... Thank you for your replies. We will be checking out the DNS hosting companies recommended here along with our registrar's DNS. On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Mike Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > I do actually have a question here. Was there anything I could have done to > get us up and running? At that stage in the game? Unlikely. But now that you've learned the lesson, you can take steps to prevent a re-occurrence. DNS is designed with distributed redundancy in mind. Getting a dedicated DNS hosting company, as others have suggested, is a good idea. That way your names are not tied to your feed, your web server, or anything else. It makes switching all those much easier, and a dedicated host is less likely to screw up like this. Many registrars include basic DNS hosting with your registration. Run a nameserver of your own. Or more than one, if you have multiple sites/feeds. You can slave it to the hosting company's nameservers, or some DNS hosts offer "slave service" packages. List your nameserver(s) along with the hosting company's servers in the registration delegation. Now you've got multiple companies, sites, servers, and likely even DNS implementations serving your records. For example, at our local Linux User Group, our co-lo'ed server is the master nameserver, but we also get slave service from Dyn Inc (http://www.dyn.com/). So our registered nameservers look like: VIPRE Anti-phishing found a known bad URL in your email message. It was deleted or quarantined, depending on your settings, and replaced with this message. The anti-phishing setting is located in File>Settings under the Email Protection tab.. ns4.mydyndns.org. ns5.mydyndns.org. ns2.mydyndns.org. ns3.mydyndns.org. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- Thank you, Mike Sullivan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
