[TriLUG] hosting your own DNS

Aaron Joyner aaron at joyner.ws
Wed Mar 7 13:11:55 EST 2007


Brian McCullough wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:02:58AM -0800, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> 
>>I'd suggest that if you want to have direct and relatively immediate 
>>control over the records from a BIND server, yet still have sufficient 
>>reliability, you should setup a local BIND server on a static IP on a 
>>link you control.  This link does not have to be 100% reliable, although 
>>it wouldn't hurt.  Then pay someone to do secondary DNS service for 
>>you.  Your ISP, various other folks on the Internet, etc may be able to 
> 
> 
> 
> And I might put in a vote for someone that Aaron knows slightly,
> Intrex.net.  They offer special deals for TriLUG members, although
> separating the DNS hosting from their more regular "ISP" role might
> involve a little discussion.
> 
> 
> Brian
> 

That's actually where my pricing metric comes from.  At least when I 
worked for Intrex, "Secondary DNS" was a service offered for (I think it 
was) $2/mon.  Searching the archives may produce details about a TriLUG 
discount related to that.

Aaron S. Joyner



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