[TriLUG] OT: DSL for SOHO in Chapel Hill

[Jim Ray]

What's the need for a /29 if you outsource dns?

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] 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

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