What's the need for a /29 if you outsource dns? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Tower Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:32 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: DSL for SOHO in Chapel Hill
> As for DNS, best to leave that to one of the well run third party DNS > providers. Sure, it's something you can do yourself if you want. But > why bother when you have free providers like EveryDNS who will do it > for you for free? And you can never hope to reach the levels of > redundancy that they can boast of. easyDNS rocks. i recommend them to all of my clients, it's so much easier than doing it yourself or trusting your ISP or colo (who don't always get DNS right). case in point - i'm working with a client right now who changed their MX record in order to start hosting their own mail. however, a percentage of mail continued to be delivered to the old server well after the TTL had expired. turns out the DNS provider only updated their primary DNS server, the secondary continued to spit out the old info. jason -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
