Ok, I'm in the process of getting a dedicated RaQ w/ Tera-Byte. I'm going to use DNS services on the RaQ - BUT, I'm going to need a secondary name-server. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could get an NS2... ?

Thanks.

There are some free ones, the only one I know off the top of my head is mydomain.com.....

Aloha
not sure if this will help
http://granitecanyon.com/

http://hn.org/

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havent played with these yet

Why don't you just use Tera's DNS manager? Alias the nameservers if you want to.

You can run secondary DNS on the same RaQ as the primary if you want to. You may want to consider looking into a service like UltraDNS. They have 20+ servers throughout the world dedicated solely for DNS services, which ensures the DNS side of your website will always be up and running. However it can get costly if you have many websites.

Not to toot my own horn, but since it's free I don't think it counts....


I run a free DNS service called EveryDNS.

Right now we do free static DNS service for anyone on the internet. Soon we'll do dynamic DNS, Host Monitoring, Backup MX, etc....

All of our services are free. Hope that helps.

Thanks,
David U.

Originally posted by DavidU
Soon we'll do dynamic DNS

great... this is interesting. I'll tell my friends.. as soon as your dynamic dns service is up and running :)

David-
Do you offer just secondary dns services for folks who already have a primary?

Originally posted by sbrad
David-
Do you offer just secondary dns services for folks who already have a primary?

Nope, and if we ran bind it would be easy to say yes. We are working on a good solution though...it will probably be a month.

-davidu

Originally posted by DavidU

Nope, and if we ran bind it would be easy to say yes. We are working on a good solution though...it will probably be a month.


Can't the DJB dns server zone transfer?

If not, wouldn't it be possible to use a small external program that did a zone transfer once every hour (for example) and inserted that into the hash tables of DJB?

(I know that this will throw away support for NOTIFY, but what the heck...)

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Jens Kristian Søgaard, Mermaid Consulting I/S,
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Originally posted by jks


Can't the DJB dns server zone transfer?

If not, wouldn't it be possible to use a small external program that did a zone transfer once every hour (for example) and inserted that into the hash tables of DJB?

(I know that this will throw away support for NOTIFY, but what the heck...)


Yep, DJB does _not_ support AXFR/ZXFR/NOTIFY --- I wish it did....that's what I meant when I mentioed Dan skimped on some RFC completeness...

we have a semi-working script to emulate AXFR-GET but need to do a lot of parsing and post-processing to dump it into our database, log it, verify it is valid, authenticate it, and then process it into valid data format. (not in that order of course)

So, it is doable, and we will do it, but we have other priorities. BTW, anyone is totally welcome to help.

I would certainly love it especially now since my partner David Fortunato is gone for the next two months and I am tackling everything alone now.


-davidu

Originally posted by Chicken
Why don't you just use Tera's DNS manager? Alias the nameservers if you want to.

how can I Alias the nameservers ?

Hi Buddy,

Setup CNAME records (also known as Alternate Hostnames) ... for example:

Your using Tera-Byte's name servers:

ns1.tera-byte.com
ns2.tera-byte.com

SO under your DNS manager/BIND/etc you insert two CNAME's:

- ns1.yourdomain.com IN CNAME ns1.tera-byte.com
- ns2.yourdomain.com IN CNAME ns2.tera-byte.com

Then in your WHOIS records just specify ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com as primary and secondary. It looks more professional to clients and ALSO lightens to load on beginner HSM's (Hosting System Managers) -- so you don't have to mess w/ DNS - and you can get a hang of dealing with the exciting world of Cobalt Shiznit.

Have a good day... etc.

moz.

Thanks pal


I did that in my dns zone file (I ran bind9 manually in my raq at 4ws ). But when I went to modify nameservers , all registrars keep saying "illegal/invalid nameserver" Should I register the nameserver first ?

Can I register 2 nameservers and point them to a machine , modify client's domain to use these nameservers , then setup primary zone file in that machine. ?

Yes, you must register a nameserver with your registrar (listed registrar for the domain that the ns is tied to).

Although you can do a C/NAME alias, you cannot list the alias in the whois database. ONLY registered ns's are allowed in the whois database.