SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT,

my host is down & zoneedit.com is down also. So I can't redirect surfers to my back-up site!!!!

Anyone knows what's up w/ zoneedit & when they will be online again?

works for me now.

Thats exactly why I say you should let your hosting company do all of your DNS stuff. If you need to switch hosts they can just edit your named stuff and get you squared away. That's what we offer our customers that decide to leave.

Originally posted by jic
Thats exactly why I say you should let your hosting company do all of your DNS stuff. If you need to switch hosts they can just edit your named stuff and get you squared away. That's what we offer our customers that decide to leave.

Gee, not every hosting is as honest as you I guess. Do you run your nameservers off your main network or on it?

I provide free secondary DNS for a lot of people who in a jam can convert me to primary just for the sole reason that their host is ****ing with them.

I'm not saying you would only that a lot of people get concerned about that.

greetz,
davidu

Originally posted by jic
Thats exactly why I say you should let your hosting company do all of your DNS stuff. If you need to switch hosts they can just edit your named stuff and get you squared away. That's what we offer our customers that decide to leave.


The benefit of what you suggest depends upon many factors. The actual zoneedit dns servers are numerous and spread throughout the geographical US. The two zoneedit dns servers that my sites use are in NYC and San Diego. I've never had any down time due to a zoneedit problem.

From what I've seen many hosting companies have their dns servers on the same subnet or even in the same data center. It's a common design problem that even Microsoft fell victim to. (as a result, they have spread their dns servers apart, even putting one in the UK.)

My point in this rambling is not to confuse the ability to change dns entries with the need for redundant geographically dispersed dns servers.