To Garth, Ben, Mark and others ... thanks !! This has been a great exploration of DNS the last couple of days.
And the winner is .. zoneedit.com ... by a country mile. They were recommended by a friend elsewhere, too. I think most of the DNS hosting options I checked had the feature list you mentioned below, Garth. However, I think zoneedit strikes the right balance for me between security and price. They also integrate nicely with OpenSRS, which I also use. One downside: In setting up a couple of domains with them this evening, I did notice that they suffer terribly from cached pages. Meaning, you must be very careful when editing pages, to ensure that you aren't viewing a cached page with the wrong settings. In our development here, it's an issue that we have wrestled pretty much to the ground (and talked to death on this list previously). Thaks again. Ian -----Original Message----- From: Garth Penglase Hi Ian, I use zoneedit.com and have found the service and support to be good. advantages are: - dns redundancy - dynamic ip addressing - round robin dns - mail forwarding / web forwarding / cloaking - they use ip blacklists for reduction of spam (when using their mail forwarding feature) - fast and immediate there are other features that they provide that I don't use yet. disadvantages - they use ip blacklists for reduction of spam (when using their mail forwarding feature) which causes clients using ip addresses which are blacklisted to be unable to get mail through their mail server. however, I have only had a few cases of this and encouraged the client to bug their ISP to fix the security hole on the blacklisted server and remove it from the list. Providing the client with an email/web page which points out what the problem is, who should solve it and how it should be solved seems to be the best trick - I present it as a service to my clients and for them to use with their clients. service is free for first 5 domains/services per client - they currently host over 500,000 domains definitely worth checking it out Garth At 10:31 17/07/02 -0700, you wrote: >I am considering outsourcing our DNS service and am wondering if there are >recommendations that anyone would share. > >I have looked at ultradns.com ... I'm wondering if there are others out >there that listers have experience with. Please share pro's and con's. > >with thanks ... > >Ian Daniel, A.Sc.T., President >New Creation Consulting & Information Management Inc. ># 701, 889 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC V6C 3B2 Canada >===================================================== ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ncol.com ><http://witango.ncol.com>http://witango.ncol.com >Ph: (604) 576-3086 Fax: (604) 576-3025 > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
